Abstract

Martine Béland’s Kulturkritik et philosophie thérapeutique chez le jeune Nietzsche is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on Nietzsche in at least two respects. First, it exposes the therapeutic dimension of Nietzsche’s thought, which, despite recent interest, is a topic that remains largely unexplored. Second, it focuses on Nietzsche’s earliest writings, which tend to be—with the notable exception of The Birth of Tragedy—the least widely read of his...