Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions Contributor(s): Nietzsche, Friedrich (Author), Searls, Damion (Translator), Reitter, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1590178947 ISBN-13: 9781590178942 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Essays - Philosophy | Social - Education | Essays |
Dewey: 370.1 |
LCCN: 2015014216 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.30 lbs) 160 pages |
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Publisher Description: AN NYRB Classics Original In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, 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 ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers--the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece--this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . . What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. Anti-Education presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world. |