Anti-Education - Nietzsche Friedrich
Anti-Education - Nietzsche Friedrich AN NYRB Classics OriginalIn 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical…
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Anti-Education - Nietzsche Friedrich
AN NYRB Classics OriginalIn 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. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career.
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? 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. 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