"Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens, this book confronts the realities of how modern social structures, ideologies, and utopianisms affect one's ability to purpose existence with self-authored meaning"--.

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One. The Sociological Imagination
• Chapter Two. How to Approach Nietzsche’s Works
• Chapter Three. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The Early Years (1872–1878)
• Chapter Four. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The Nomadic Years (1879–1887)
• Chapter Five. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imaginations: The 1888 Texts
• Chapter Six. Nietzsche’s Sociological Imagination of Motley Cow
• Chapter Seven. The Self and Totalitarian Democracy
• References
• Index
• About the Author