"La psycho-diététique de Nietzsche"
(2020) Die Frage der Medizin in Nietzsches Philosophie/La Question de la médecine dans la philosophie de Nietzsche — ISBN: [978-3-7965-3921-3], p. 171-184, published
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- This paper aims at analyzing a specific aspect of Nietzsche’s self-proclaimed medical expertise, which is the very non-Freudian role he ascribes to dietetics in the treatment of “nervous” diseases. I first consider the philosophical justifications of such a psycho-dietetic approach, namely, Nietzsche’s mind-body monism and his cultural diagnosis of morbidity targeting the Judeo-Christian way of life. I then argue that Nietzsche’s dietetics is not therapeutic in an ordinary sense, both because it doesn’t prescribe universal recipes and because it doesn’t purport to suppress pain. Lastly, I show that the Nietzschean diet is beyond the reach of the typical “decadent”, insofar as the latter instinctively chooses a harmful regime.
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Emmanuel Salanskis. (2020). “La psycho-diététique de Nietzsche”. In Isabelle Wienand, Patrick Wotling (ed.), Die Frage der Medizin in Nietzsches Philosophie/La Question de la médecine dans la philosophie de Nietzsche (Schwabe Verlag, p. p. 171-184). Salanskis. https://doi.org/10.24894/978-3-7965-4013-4