Infectious Nietzsche

Infectious Nietzsche is simply one of the most interesting and engaging works to appear on Nietzsche's philosophy in years.
--David Allison

Krell explores health, illness, and creativity in the life and thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Drawing on a varied literature of philosophical reflections on health, and analyzing Nietzsche's confrontation with traditional values, Krell skillfully engages the legacy of Platonism and Western metaphysics that is at the core of Nietzsche's thought. Nietzsche's genealogical critique, his doctrine of eternal recurrence of the same, and the Nietzschean physiology and psychology of decadence are principal foci. Anyone interested in a philosophical reflection on questions of genius and pathology, and all readers of Nietzsche, will find Krell's new book compelling reading.

Author: David Farrell Krell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 03/22/1996
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.10w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780253210395

About the Author

DAVID FARRELL KRELL is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy, Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge, and Postponements: Women, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche.