The Politics of the Soul: From Nietzsche to Arendt
John Dickson, "The Politics of the Soul: From Nietzsche to Arendt "
English | ISBN: 1032330139 | 2022 | 190 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1032330139 | 2022 | 190 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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. With each figure offering very different ethical and spiritual positions, all shed light on what we mean when we talk confusedly around the topics of politics and religion. With portraits of Max Weber, Georg Lukács, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, the author explores the "latent" content of their worldview―the moral (or immoral) intention of their intellectual project. In each of the case studies, the aim is to move toward an understanding of their ultimate values, to get at their particular picture of the soul, as well as the implications of this vision for religion and politics. As such,
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