An Introduction to Nietzsche: From Dionysian Tragedy to The Will to Power and Beyond
With Charlie Blake
8-week module from 7-9pm on 5 May to 7 July (with a 2-week break)
In this module we will investigate the many hyper-influential ideas of Nietzsche from his views on the Apollonian-Dionysian drives in The Birth of Tragedy through Perspectivism, Eternal Recurrence, Resentment, Laughter, Convalescence, the Ubermensch (superman) and the Last Man, Truth as a Woman, Decadence and the Death of God, the Earth and the Body, the Tightrope Walker, Philosophers of the Future, the Amor Fati, the overcoming of Nihilism and the Transvaluation of all Values, to the notorious Will to Power. We will look at the sources of his ideas, how his life shaped them, his relation to near contemporaries such as Marx, Darwin and Kierkegaard – and later Freud, and the influence of these ideas in the 20thand 21st centuries on the politics of right and left, on feminism and anarchism, on existentialism and post-structuralism, and on transhumanism, posthumanism and new materialism.
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