Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul

Reading Nietzsche''s works as the "political biography of his soul," Leslie Thiele presents an original and accessible essay on the great thinker''s attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. He takes as his point of departure Nietzsche''s conception of the soul as a multiplicity of conflicting drives and personae, and focuses on the task Nietzsche allot...