"We Scholars" According to Nietzsche

This book examines Nietzsche's early writings on education, paying particular attention to his thought on scholarship and teaching. Giosuè Ghisalberti examines Nietzsche's view of himself as a teacher in the broader context of his reflections on scholarship and philology, and puts Nietzsche's examination into conversation with prominent themes in his later philosophy (including morality, truth, and language). The book is to be read as an assessment of our social predicament, in and out of the university. "We Scholars" According to Nietzsche develops ideas on our contemporary world most especially in institutions of higher learning and how morality is proving to be inimical to freedom.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Nietzsche, Professor of Philology at the University of Basel, 1869 1879. - Chapter 2. The Preface to the Public Lectures on Education. - Chapter 3. Institutions of Higher Learning, Then and Now,


His and Ours. - Chapter 4. The True Metaphysical Significance of Life. - Chapter 5. The Theoretical Man of Morality in The Birth of Tragedy. - Chapter 6. Fragments, Notes, and Unfinished Essays of 1872 1874. - Chapter 7. We Philologists, a Draft of an Untimely Meditation. - Chapter 8. Schopenhauer and Our Love and Hate for Culture. - Chapter 9. The Hard Psychologica of Human, all too Human. - Chapter 10. Conclusion: Metaphysics, Psychology, and the Free Spirit.