Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche : Philosophy, Culture, and Agency

by Elliot L. Jurist

• ISBN13: 9780262600484
• ISBN10: 026260048X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-07
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continental philosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and explicates the various meanings of "culture" in their work--in particular, the contrast both thinkers draw between ancient and modern culture. He evaluates their positions on the failure of modern culture and on the need to develop conceptions of satisfied agency. It is Jurist's original contribution to focus on the psychological sensibility that informs the project of both philosophers. Writing in an admirably clear style, he traces the ongoing legacy of Hegel's and Nietzsche's thought in Adorno, Habermas, Honneth, Jessica Benjamin, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, and Butler.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
I Philosophy and Culture
The Culture of Philosophy	17	(26)
The Cartesian Myth	18	(2)
Hegel's Actual Knowers	20	(6)
Nietzsche's Philosophical Physicians	26	(7)
The Psychology of Knowledge	33	(10)
The Philosophy of Culture	43	(26)
Customs	45	(7)
Bildung	52	(11)
Self-Fathoming	63	(6)
Ancient Greek Culture	69	(26)
Reconciling Hegelian Tragedy	74	(5)
Living with Nietzschean Tragedy	79	(5)
Antigone vs. Cassandra?	84	(11)
Excursus on the Phenomenology of Spirit and Tragedy	87	(8)
Modern Culture	95	(30)
Unsatisfied Yearning: Hegel, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas	97	(7)
Agitatedness and the New Barbarians: Nietzsche and Heidegger	104	(10)
Alienation vs. Despair?	114	(11)
II Culture and Agency
On the Concept of Agency	125	(16)
Persons and Agents	126	(3)
Taylor's Genealogy of Agency	129	(4)
Hegel and Nietzsche in Context	133	(8)
Recognition and Agency in Hegel	141	(16)
Socio-Political and Epistemological Functions of Recognition	141	(2)
Self-Recognition	143	(5)
Cognition, Satisfaction, and Desire	148	(9)
Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit (I)	157	(18)
True and False Recognition	158	(6)
Internal Recognition	164	(5)
Natural and Ethical Recognition	169	(6)
Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirt (II)	175	(18)
Legal Recognition	176	(2)
Alienation at Home	178	(3)
Toward Mutual Recognition	181	(6)
Summarizing Recognition in the PhS	187	(6)
Hegelian Agency	193	(18)
A Reintroduction to the Reading of Hegel: Kojeve	196	(4)
New Readings of Recognition: Honneth and Benjamin	200	(6)
Reading Hegel Psychoanalytically	206	(5)
Nietzsche's Ambivalence toward Agency	211	(20)
Multiplicity and Agency	212	(5)
Integrated Agency	217	(1)
Four Factors of Integrated Agency	218	(7)
Anti-Agency	225	(6)
The Will to Power and Agency in Nietzsche	231	(14)
Will	232	(3)
Power	235	(6)
Agency Infused with Will to Power	241	(4)
Self and Other in Nietzsche	245	(16)
Self-Enclosed Gardens with Hospitable Gates	246	(3)
Friendship	249	(5)
Too Much Solitude?	254	(7)
Nietzschean Agency	261	(22)
Nietzschean Variations	262	(2)
Renewing Nietzsche: Derrida	264	(5)
Big Other: Lacan	269	(5)
Back to the Psyche: Butler	274	(5)
Nietzsche and His Discontents	279	(4)
Epilogue	283	(8)
Appendix	291	(2)
Notes	293	(36)
Bibliography	329	(22)
Index	351