Posttraumatic Joy

Posttraumatic Joy presents the major themes and ideas of Nietzsche's corpus from a continental and psychoanalytic perspective with a particular bent toward how they might illuminate ways of coping with and living beyond trauma and suffering.

Autorentext

Matthew Clemente is a husband and father.. He is a Research Fellow in the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics at Boston College and the Assistant Editor of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion. His latest book, Technology and Its Discontents (coauthored with David Goodman), is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Andrew J. Zeppa is a graduate student in philosophy at Boston College.

Klappentext

Posttraumatic Joy presents the major themes and ideas of Nietzsche's corpus from a continental and psychoanalytic perspective with a particular bent toward how they might illuminate ways of coping with and living beyond trauma and suffering.

Inhalt

1. Mourning and Melancholia: From Trauma to The Birth of Tragedy 2. The Value of Values: The Psychology of Morals 3. Bad Conscience: Whence the Super-Ego 4. God is Dead: Living in the Absence of the Father 5. Our Virtue: An Honest Look at Suffering and Joy 6. Appendix