Paradox of Philosophical Education

"The Paradox of Philosophical Education is an interpretation of Nietzsche's mature thought by J. Harvey Lomax, eminent Nietzsche scholar. Lomax reads religion and philosophy as counterpoints to poetry; as few others have done, he sets aside the anti-rationalist, nihilist Nietzsche and reveals him as a poet-philosopher in - and in conflict with - the Platonic and Socratic traditions. With thoughtful discussion and a passage-by-passage explication of chapters 1 and 2 of Beyond Good and Evil, Lomax becomes the first Nietzschean scholar to provide a coherent treatment of Nietzsche's work on nobility."--BOOK JACKET.