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- Title
Nietzsche on Depression and Décadence.
- Authors
Domino, Brian
- Abstract
Scholars seldom mention that part of Nietzsche's criticism of Christianity in On the Genealogy of Morals is that it not only fails to treat the depression it causes beyond attempting to allay the symptoms, but that it also worsens it. Nietzsche worries that humanity's depressed state, coupled with the death of God, will leave it enervated and without a future. While in the works of his final productive year he claims to have a solution, it is not clear what it is. To many scholars, the central chapter in his so-called autobiography, Ecce Homo, appears to be a disconnected set of recommendations about daily life. I argue that Nietzsche is actually sharing strategies to combat depression now that he has found its physiological underpinnings in what he calls décadence.
- Publication
Philosophical Practice: Journal of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association (American Philosophical Practitioners Association), 2019, Vol 14, Issue 2, p2341
- ISSN
1742-8173
- Publication type
Academic Journal