Nietzsche’s Therapy: Self Cultivation in the Middle Works by Michael Ure is now available at a pre-publication discount from Lexington Books.

$80.00 Discount: $60.00 (25% off) Cloth May 2008 0-7391-1996-6 / 978-0-7391-1996-9 306pp

“I cannot praise this book highly enough. It offers a set of rich insights into the texts of Nietzsche’s unduly neglected ‘middle period’ and returns us to the congenial Nietzsche who is a great psychologist of the pathologies of human vanity and wounded narcissism and a philosopher of modesty and probity. His book succeeds in taking us beyond the aestheticist clichés that have impaired our reception and appreciation of Nietzsche in recent years. Michael Ure is a highly able and subtle reader of Nietzsche who has fresh things to say on Nietzsche’s relation to Stoicism and psychoanalysis and on Nietzsche’s use of the ironic and the comic. The book merits a wide readership and I am confident that it will inspire a major renewal of interest in the middle period texts both in terms of pedagogy and scholarship.”—Keith Ansell Pearson, University of Warwick

“This is a wise, humane, and extremely interesting work. Having discussed the influential and important work of Nehamas and Foucault on Nietzsche, Michael Ure offers a persuasive and insightful Freudian reading of Nietzsche’s middle works. Contending that Nietzsche drew heavily on ancient conceptions of philosophy as a therapeutic practice whose real value is to be found in its effects on the philosopher’s life outside his or her writings, Ure explores Nietzsche’s psychological insights into narcissism, subjecting melancholia, revenge and pity to critiques which enable the reader to come closer to self-knowledge. Elegantly and economically written, and ending with a discussion of Nietzsche’s conception of friendship, the overall effect of this book is not simply that of enriching our understanding of Nietzsche, but also that of delivering a tonic effect not usually to be found in contemporary philosophy.”—Christopher Hamilton, King’s College London

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