AN NYRB Classics Original
In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers--the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece--this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . . What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world.Anti-Education
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
$16.95
- SKU:
- 9781590178942
- UPC:
- 9781590178942
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- Published by:
- NYRB Classics
- Translated by:
- Damion Searls
- Pub date:
- 12/15/2015
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 160
- ISBN:
- 9781590178942