{"product_id":"composing-the-soul-reaches-of-nietzsches-psychology-9780226646879","title":"Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology","description":"Nietzsche wrote in \u003ci\u003eEcce Homo\u003c\/i\u003e (1888), \"That a psychologist without equal speaks from my writings-this is perhaps the first insight gained by a good reader. . . . Who among the philosophers before me was in any way a psychologist? Before me there simply was no psychology.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eComposing the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study to pay sustained attention to this pronouncement and to examine the contours of Nietzsche's psychology in the context of his life and psychological makeup. Beginning with essays from Nietzsche's youth, Graham Parkes shows the influence of such figures as Goethe, Byron, and Emerson on Nietzsche's formidable and multiple talents. Parkes goes on to chart the development of Nietzsche's psychological ideas in terms of the imagery, drawn from the dialogues of Plato as well as from Nietzsche's own quasi-mystical experiences of nature, in which he spoke of the soul. Finally, Parkes analyzes Nietzsche's most revolutionary idea-that the soul is composed of multiple \"drives,\" or \"persons,\" within the psyche. The task for Nietzsche's psychology, then, was to identify and order these multiple persons within the individual-to compose the soul. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Featuring all new translations of quotations from Nietzsche's writings, \u003ci\u003eComposing the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the profundity of Nietzsche's lifelong personal and intellectual struggles to come to grips with the soul. Extremely well-written, this landmark work makes Nietzsche's life and ideas accessible to any reader interested in this much misunderstood thinker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graham Parkes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaches of Nietzsche's Psychology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 5.94w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226646879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2nd Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43981285818505,"sku":"9780226646879","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_5b80cc35-1dc6-48db-b381-239cc235e2b0.jpg?v=1747120871","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/composing-the-soul-reaches-of-nietzsches-psychology-9780226646879","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}