John Dickson

The Politics of the Soul (eBook, ePUB)

From Nietzsche to Arendt

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century, who inherited and responded to the spiritual problematic left by Nietzsche.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000801866
• Artikelnr.: 66258936

Autorenporträt

John Dickson is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. He undertook postgraduate studies at Yale University and completed his PhD at La Trobe under the supervision of Professor John Carroll in 2014. It was titled "Strange Gods: The Crisis of Meaning After Nietzsche." He has since written several articles, including chapters in The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff (2017) and Metaphysical Sociology: On the Work of John Carroll (2019). This is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Apocalypse 1. The Nietzsche Problem: Dangerous Knowledge 2. The
Last Good Liberal: Max Weber's Pessimistic Realism 3. The Grand Hotel
Abyss: Georg Lukács and the Leap of Faith 4. The Reactionary: T.S. Eliot
and the Escape from The Waste Land 5. The Last Just Cause: The Auden
Generation and the Spanish Civil War PART II: The Psychoanalytic Movement
6. The Destroyer of Illusions: Sigmund Freud 7. Strange Gods: C.G. Jung and
the Mystic Circus PART III: The Humanist Reconstruction 8. The Need for
Roots: George Orwell and Hannah Arendt; Concluding Remarks: Thinking What
We Are Doing