The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism

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Palgrave Macmillan, Feb 15, 2011 - Philosophy - 157 pages
Following Nietzsche’s call for a philosopher-physician and his own use of the bodily language of health and illness as tools to diagnose the ailments of the body politic, this book offers a reconstruction of the concept of political physiology in Nietzsche’s thought, bridging gaps between Anglo-American, German and French schools of interpretation.

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The Mnemotechnics of Nihilism and the Political
1
The Displaced Origin of Political Physiology
20
Nature Culture Life
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NANDITA BISWAS MELLAMPHY is Assistant Professor of Political Theory, and core faculty in the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at The University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on Nietzsche’s political thought and its influence on contemporary interdisciplinary theory. She is also an exponent of the classical Indian dance style of Bharatanatya and has toured extensively in North America.

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