Patterns of sickness: Nietzsche's physio-historical account of asceticism.
Though the ideas of health and sickness are very much at the heart of Nietzsche's mature thought, scholars have offered little on what exactly he means by sickness. This is particularly true when Nietzsche presents his conception of sickness in more narrowly physiological terms, as he does explicitl...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 109 - 130 |
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