{"product_id":"anti-education-on-the-future-of-our-educational-institutions-9781590178942","title":"Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN NYRB Classics Original\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers--the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece--this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872. \u003ci\u003eAnti-Education\u003c\/i\u003e presents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche\u003c\/b\u003e (1844-1900) was born in Röcken bei Lützen, a farming town outside of Leipzig, to a long line of Lutheran ministers. After his father's early death from a brain disease, the family relocated to Naumburg an der Saale. Nietzsche attended the Schulpforta boarding school, where he became enamored with the music of Richard Wagner and the writings of the German Romantics, before going on to study at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig. As a university student, Nietzsche gained a reputation as a classical philologist and discovered Arthur Schopenhauer's \u003ci\u003eThe World as Will and Representation\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"cadaverous perfume\" of which would hang over him throughout his career. After a period of compulsory military service, Nietzsche was appointed to the faculty of the University of Basel at the age of twenty-four. He published his first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1872, but his deteriorating health soon forced him to retire from academia. In the itinerant period that followed, Nietzsche completed his most influential works, including \u003ci\u003eThus Spoke Zarathustra\u003c\/i\u003e (1883-85), \u003ci\u003eBeyond Good and Evil\u003c\/i\u003e (1886), and \u003ci\u003eThe Antichrist \u003c\/i\u003e(1888). He suffered a mental breakdown in Turin on January 3, 1889--purportedly at the sight of a horse being beaten by a coachman. Before collapsing, Nietzsche is said to have thrown his arms around the horse's neck to shield it from the whip. Three days later, he wrote in a letter to his mentor Jacob Burckhardt that he would rather be \"a Basel Professor than God.\" He was subsequently hospitalized, and lived the rest of his life an invalid in the care of his mother and sister. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamion Searls\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch and a writer in English. His own books include \u003ci\u003eWhat We Were Doing and Where We Were Going\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Inkblots\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Translation\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2019 for Uwe Johnson's \u003ci\u003eAnniversaries\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Reitter\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Germanic languages and literatures and the director of the Humanities Institute at Ohio State. His work has appeared in\u003ci\u003e Harper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003eas well as in various scholarly journals. He is the author of three books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eChad Wellmon\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of German studies at the University of Virginia and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University\u003c\/i\u003e and edits the blog \u003ci\u003eInfernal Machine\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524852420882,"sku":"9781590178942","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e9412c60-3fc0-4fef-98ff-d14a945667d3.jpg?v=1731195804","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anti-education-on-the-future-of-our-educational-institutions-9781590178942","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}