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Book SynopsisHarnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, Employing Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination: How to Understand Totalitarian Democracy confronts the realities of how modernity and its utopianisms affect one’s ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning. By critically assessing the ideals of modern institutions, the motives of their pundits, and their political ideologies as expressions born from the social decay of exhausted dreams and projects of modernity, Jack Fong assembles Nietzsche’s existential sociological imagination to empower actors to emancipate the self from such duress. Illuminating the merits of creating new meaning for life affirmation by overcoming struggle with one’s will to power, Fong reveals Nietzsche’s horizons for actualized and empowered selves, selves to be liberated from convention, groupthink, and cultural scripts that exact deference from society’s captive audiences.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Sociological Imagination
Chapter 2: How to Approach Nietzsche’s Works
Chapter 3: Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The Early Years (1872 – 1878)
Chapter 4: Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The Nomadic Years (1879 – 1887)
Chapter 5: Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The 1888 Texts
Chapter 6: Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination of Motley Cow
Chapter 7: The Self and Totalitarian Democracy
