A Companion to Nietzsche

by Ansell-Pearson, Keith

• ISBN13: 9781405116220
• ISBN10: 1405116226
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship. Brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche. Showcases the latest trends in Nietzsche scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche's philosophy of time, of nature, and of life. Includes clearly organized sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's New Philosophy of the Future; Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; Evolution and Life. Features fresh treatments of Nietzsche's core and enigmatic doctrines.

Author Biography

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He co-founded the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and is renowned for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze. He is co-editor, with Duncan Large, of The Nietzsche Reader (Blackwell, 2006).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	x
A Note on References to Nietzsche's Works	xv
A Note on Translated Essays	xviii
A Note on Cross-References	xix
Chronology of Nietzsche's Life and Work	xx
Friedrich Nietzsche: An Introduction to his Thought, Life, and Work	1	(21)
Keith Ansell Pearson
Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism	22	(17)
Jill Marsden
Part I ART, NATURE, AND INDIVIDUATION	39	(56)
The Aesthetic Justification of Existence	41	(17)
Daniel Came
Nietzsche on Individuation and Purposiveness in Nature	58	(18)
Elaine P. Miller
The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche	76	(19)
Nuno Nabais
Part II NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE	95	(74)
Nietzsche's ``Gay'' Science	97	(18)
Babette E. Babich
Nietzsche and Philosophical Anthropology	115	(18)
Richard Schacht
Nietzsche's Philosophy and True Religion	133	(15)
Laurence Lampert
The Naturalisms of Beyond Good and Evil	148	(21)
Maudemarie Clark
David Dudrick
Part III ETERNAL RECURRENCE, THE OVERHUMAN, AND NIHILISM	169	(102)
Identity and Eternal Recurrence	171	(18)
Paul S. Loeb
Nietzsche and Cosmology	189	(19)
Robin Small
Nietzsche on Time and Becoming	208	(22)
John Richardson
The Incorporation of Truth: Towards the Overhuman	230	(20)
Keith Ansell Pearson
Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche	250	(21)
Andreas Urs Sommer
Part IV PHILOSOPHY OF MIND	271	(64)
The Body, the Self, and the Ego	273	(24)
Volker Gerhardt
Phenomenology and Science in Nietzsche	297	(17)
Peter Poellner
Naturalism and Nietzsche's Moral Psychology	314	(21)
Christa Davis Acampora
Part V PHILOSOPHY AND GENEALOGY	335	(52)
Naturalism and Genealogy	337	(16)
Christopher Janaway
The Philosophical Function of Genealogy	353	(18)
Robert Guay
Agent and Deed in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals	371	(16)
Robert B. Pippin
Part VI ETHICS	387	(48)
Nietzsche and Ethics	389	(15)
Paul J. M. van Tongeren
Rebaptizing our Evil: On the Revaluation of All Values	404	(15)
Kathleen Marie Higgins
Nietzsche's Fatalism	419	(16)
Robert C. Solomon
Part VII POLITICS	435	(40)
Nietzsche contra Liberalism on Freedom	437	(18)
Herman Siemens
Nietzsche and National Identity	455	(20)
Diane Morgan
Part VIII AESTHETICS	475	(40)
Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics	477	(18)
Gary Shapiro
Nietzsche, Dionysus, and the Ontology of Music	495	(20)
Christoph Cox
Part IX EVOLUTION AND LIFE: THE WILL TO POWER	515	(68)
Nietzsche and Evolutionary Theory	517	(15)
Gregory Moore
Life and Self-Overcoming	532	(16)
Daniel W. Conway
Nietzsche's Theory of the Will to Power	548	(17)
James I. Porter
A Critique of the Will to Power	565	(18)
Henry Staten
Index	583