Get Over Yourself by Patrick West

Get Over Yourself by Patrick West

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 asks: 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.

Patrick West is a journalist and author who has written for The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Catholic Herald and Tablet. His previous books include Conspicuous Compassion (Civitas, 2004) and The Poverty of Multiculturalism (Civitas, 2005). He writes weekly for Spiked and lives in Kent.