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Title: Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions
Author: NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/12/2015
Imprint: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
In 1869, at the age of twenty-five, 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 sense of purpose. The genius of such thinkers and makers like the genius of the ancient Greeks was the only touchstone for true understanding. How then was education to answer to such genius? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophya What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Composed in emulation (and to some degree as a satire) of a Platonic dialogue, Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the great problems of modern societies.
ISBN: 9781590178942