From The Birth of Tragedy on, Nietzsche worked to comprehend the

        nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired

        and guided by the question of personal "sovereignty" and how

        through his writings he sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described.

        White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age must

        therefore come to understand if we are ever to secure a genuinely meaningful

        direction for the future. Profoundly relevant to our era, Nietzsche's

        philosophy addresses a version of individuality that allows us to move

        beyond the self-dispossession of mass society and the alternative of selfish

        individualism--to fully understand how one becomes what one is.

      A volume in the International Nietzsche Studies series, edited by

        Richard Schacht