Chapter 1 Key to References Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction: A Summary of Arguments Chapter 4 Philosophy as Therapy and the Therapy of Philosophy Chapter 5 Einsamkeitmehre - The Practices of Solitude Chapter 6 The Dialectics of Solitude and Friendship Chapter 7 Writing the Future, Reading the Self Chapter 8 Nutrition and the Casuistry of Selfishness Chapter 9 Dance and the Return of Dionysus Chapter 10 Epilogues: Actio in Distans Chapter 11 Selected Bibliography Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author
Horst Hutter is professor of Political Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal.
Hutter argues that the root and branch of Nietzsche's philosophy is
classical Greek, that Nietzsche's perspective is accompanied by
'ascetic practices', thus ways of not only viewing life but also
ways of living life. Hutter may have shown us the way Nietzsche
would have wanted us to view his work. In my opinion, this is a
profound and important work.
*Tom Darby, Carleton University*
Horst Hutter is unique among political theorists today in combining
a deep knowledge of modern thought with a sympathetic understanding
of the philosophical schools of late antiquity. In this challenging
book he applies to Nietzsche Pierre Hadot's notion of philosophy as
askesis or a discipline of reshaping oneself in all respects of
both body and soul. The result is a Nietzsche rescued from
postmodernism and closer than supposed to classical philosophy.
Sometimes critical but always sympathetic, insisting on the
undiminished urgency of Nietzsche's critique of modern life, Hutter
provides a model reading of an indispensable thinker.
*Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto*
A brilliant treatment of Nietzsche's thought as an exercise in
philosophic therapy. Hutter brings the text alive in ways that are
clear, consistently illuminating and often surprising. A valuable
book both for the beginner and for the well-informed Nietzsche
scholar.
*Susan Shell, Boston College*
Horst Hutter's Shaping the Future: Nietzsche's New Regime of the
Soul and Its Ascetic Practices is the wise work of a serious
disciple.
*Nietzsche Circle*
Can philosophy offer not just doctrines and academic theories, but
"therapies" and concrete ways of re-orienting one's mode of living?
Horst Hutter argues that this is precisely what was offered by
ancient schools of philosophy, and that this original goal of
philosophizing is renewed most authentically in modern philosophy
by Friedrich Nietzsche. Hence, according to Hutter's provocative
reading, Nietzsche, in his efforts to become "the philosophical
therapist of his culture," expresses his profound fidelity to the
original purposes of philosophy as conceived by the philosophers of
antiquity.
*Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto*
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