Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1975
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Educational Thought
Abstract
Against the prevailing "return to nature" educational philosophy of his day, Nietzsche stressed sublimation, the active redirecting of one's life energy or the channeling of one's power in the service of creativity, and the inevitability of suffering as essential in the attainment of freedom. The current educational practice which mitigates the importance of sublimation and suffering were, in his view, a subversive tactic of the German State to keep the reins on individual autonomy and creativity and insure conformity to the status quo.
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Sharp, Ann Margaret, "(1975) Nietzsche’s View of Sublimation in the Educational Process" (1975). Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp. 4.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/amsharp/4
Published Citation
Sharp, Ann Margaret (1975) Nietzsche’s View of Sublimation in the Educational Process. Journal of Educational Thought 9(2): 98-106.