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The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his
philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his
interpreters. This Oxford Handbook addresses this multiplicity by
devoting each of its 32 essays to a focused topic, picked out by
the book's systematic plan. The aim is to treat each topic at the
best current level of philosophical scholarship on Nietzsche. The
first group of papers treat selected biographical issues: his
family relations, his relations to women, and his ill health and
eventual insanity. In Part 2 the papers treat Nietzsche in
historical context: his relations back to other philosophers-the
Greeks, Kant, and Schopenhauer-and to the cultural movement of
Romanticism, as well as his own later influence in an unlikely
place, on analytic philosophy. The papers in Part 3 treat a variety
of Nietzsche's works, from early to late and in styles ranging from
the 'aphoristic' The Gay Science and Beyond Good and Evil through
the poetic-mythic Thus Spoke Zarathustra to the florid
autobiography Ecce Homo. This focus on individual works, their
internal unity, and the way issues are handled within them, is an
important complement to the final three groups of papers, which
divide up Nietzsche's philosophical thought topically. The papers
in Part 4 treat issues in Nietzsche's value theory, ranging from
his metaethical views as to what values are, to his own values of
freedom and the overman, to his insistence on 'order of rank', and
his social-political views. The fifth group of papers treat
Nietzsche's epistemology and metaphysics, including such well-known
ideas as his perspectivism, his promotion of becoming over being,
and his thought of eternal recurrence. Finally, Part 6 treats
another famous idea-the will to power-as well as two linked ideas
that he uses will to power to explain, the drives, and life. This
Handbook will be a key resource for all scholars and advanced
students who work on Nietzsche.
The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom,
sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical
resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related
aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his
thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency,
the 'will to nothingness', and the 'eternal recurrence', as well as
to his search for a 'genealogical' understanding of morality.
These twelve essays by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key
questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his
positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does
Nietzsche's celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his
claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation
between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming?
The depth in which these and related issues are explored gives this
volume its value, not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to
all who are concerned with the free will debate, ethics, theory of
action, and the history of philosophy.
The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom,
sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical
resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related
aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his
thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency,
the 'will to nothingness', and the 'eternal recurrence', as well as
to his search for a 'genealogical' understanding of morality.
These twelve essays by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key
questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his
positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does
Nietzsche's celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his
claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation
between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming?
The depth in which these and related issues are explored gives this
volume its value, not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to
all who are concerned with the free will debate, ethics, theory of
action, and the history of philosophy.
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an
international group of scholars, including some of the best known
in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind,
political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and
hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what
is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche's most rewarding but most
challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned
specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edited by
their authors, this collection showcases definitive works that have
shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new works of interest to
students and experts alike. Sections are devoted to the topic of
genealogy generally, numerous essays on specific passages,
applications of genealogy in later thinkers, and the import of
Nietzsche's Genealogy in contemporary politics, ethics, and
aesthetics. A lengthy introduction, annotated bibliography, and
index make this an extremely useful guide for the classroom and
advanced research.
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an
international group of scholars, including some of the best known
in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind,
political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and
hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what
is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche's most rewarding but most
challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned
specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edited by
their authors, this collection showcases definitive works that have
shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new works of interest to
students and experts alike. Sections are devoted to the topic of
genealogy generally, numerous essays on specific passages,
applications of genealogy in later thinkers, and the import of
Nietzsche's Genealogy in contemporary politics, ethics, and
aesthetics. A lengthy introduction, annotated bibliography, and
index make this an extremely useful guide for the classroom and
advanced research.
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