Get Over Yourself : Nietzsche for Our Times.

Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Guide to abbreviations of Nietzsche's works -- Prologue -- Body matter -- Introduction: Get over yourself -- Human, all too human: The life of Friedrich Nietzsche -- 1. The Superman: Identity politics -- 2. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger: Therapy culture -- 3. Live Dangerously! Safe spaces -- 4. Convictions are prisons: Religious fundamentalism -- 5. The sick, loud gesture: Virtue signalling -- 6. The herd instinct: Twitterstorms -- 7. Beware the compassionate: Crying in public -- 8. Equality to the equal, inequality to the unequal: Dumbing down -- 9. Leisure and idleness are a noble thing: Digital addiction -- 10. The Will to Power: The politics of envy -- Conclusion: Beyond Good and Evil -- Back matter -- Friedrich Nietzsche's Works -- Bibliography.

Many books have sought to introduce the writings of the infamous and influential philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, but Get Over Yourself puts matters the other way round. Rather than simply explaining his thought, it instead asks: what would Nietzsche make of us? What would he think of our 21st-century, digital age? In our time of identity politics, therapy culture, 'safe spaces', religious fundamentalism, virtue-signalling, Twitterstorms, public emoting, 'dumbing-down', digital addiction and the politics of envy, the book introduces Nietzsche by putting the man in our shoes. Get Over Yourself both uses Nietzsche's philosophy to understand our society, and takes our society to explain his philosophy.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.