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Employing Nietzsche's Sociological Imagination
How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy
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2020
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Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination: How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy confronts the realities of how modernity and its utopianisms affect one’s ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning. By critically assessing the ideals of modern institutions, the motives of their pundits, and their political ideologies as expressions born from the social decay of exhausted dreams and projects of modernity, Jack Fong assembles Nietzsche’s existential sociological imagination to empower actors to emancipate the self from such duress. Illuminating the merits of creating new meaning for life affirmation by overcoming struggle with one’s will to power, Fong reveals Nietzsche’s horizons for actualized and empowered selves, selves to be liberated from convention, groupthink, and cultural scripts that exact deference from society’s captive audiences.
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2042-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2043-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
210
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 28
Chapter One. The Sociological Imagination No access Pages 29 - 50
Chapter Two. How to Approach Nietzsche’s Works No access Pages 51 - 66
Chapter Three. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The Early Years (1872–1878) No access Pages 67 - 82
Chapter Four. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The Nomadic Years (1879–1887) No access Pages 83 - 118
Chapter Five. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The 1888 Texts No access Pages 119 - 132
Chapter Six. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination of Motley Cow No access Pages 133 - 162
Chapter Seven. The Self and Totalitarian Democracy No access Pages 163 - 192
