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Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche for Our Times
Many books have sought to introduce the writings of the infamous and influential philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, but Get Over Yourself puts matters the other way round. Rather than simply explaining his thought, it instead what would Nietzsche make of us? What would he think of our 21st-century, digital age? In our time of identity politics, therapy culture, 'safe spaces', religious fundamentalism, virtue-signalling, Twitterstorms, public emoting, 'dumbing-down', digital addiction and the politics of envy, the book introduces Nietzsche by putting the man in our shoes. Get Over Yourself both uses Nietzsche's philosophy to understand our society, and takes our society to explain his philosophy.
136 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 24, 2017
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October 26, 2020
You can tell the author really admires Nietzsche. And more than that, he wants to prop him up against accusations of being a progenitor of wokeness. And while he does a passable job of explaining why Nietzsche wouldn't be woke if he were alive today, he goes on to explain how much Foucault/Derrida (the undisputed godfathers of wokeness) owe to Nietzsche's foundations. This just felt lazy. I was hoping for a bit more penetrating analysis given how it's explicitly using a 2020 lens to look at 19th century philosophy.
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