The Politics of the Soul: From Nietzsche to Arendt

This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century, who inherited and responded to the spiritual problematic left by Nietzsche.

John Dickson is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. He undertook postgraduate studies at Yale University and completed his PhD at La Trobe under the supervision of Professor John Carroll in 2014. It was titled ＂Strange Gods: The Crisis of Meaning After Nietzsche.＂ He has since written several articles, including chapters in The Anthem Companion to Philip Rieff (2017) and Metaphysical Sociology: On the Work of John Carroll (2019). This is his first book.