Abstract

This lively, well-written book is an account of Nietzsche's philosophy of education, an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole, a critique of the view that education should primarily be devoted to initiating students into the liberal arts and sciences as forms of knowledge, and an attack upon "the technological and vocational obsessions of those who manage our school system". Cooper argues that the goal of authenticity is central to Nietzsche's philosophy of education and thus attempts to spell out the goal and show how education might realize it.