A Companion to Nietzsche

by Editor: Keith Ansell Pearson (University of Warwick)

• ISBN13: 9781405153096
• ISBN10: 1405153091
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

A Note on References to Nietzsche's Works

A Note on Translated Essays

Chronology of Life and Work

A Note on Cross-References

Friedrich Nietzsche: An Introduction to his Life, Thought, and Work

Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism

Art, Nature, and Individuation

The Aesthetic Justification of Existence

Nietzsche on Individuation and Purposiveness in Nature

The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Future

Nietzsche's "Gay" Science

Nietzsche's Philosophical Anthropology

NietzscheÆs Philosophy and True Religion

The Naturalisms of Beyond Good and Evil

Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism

Identity and Eternal Recurrence

Nietzsche and Cosmology

Nietzsche on Time and Becoming

The Overhuman

Nihilism and Scepticism in Nietzsche

Philosophy of Mind

The Body, the Self, and the Ego

Phenomenology and Science in Nietzsche

NietzscheÆs Moral Psychology

Philosophy and Genealogy

Naturalism and Genealogy

The Philosophical Function of Genealogy

Agent and Deed in NietzscheÆs Genealogy of Morals

Ethics

Nietzsche and Ethics

Rebaptizing our Evil (on NietzscheÆs Revaluation of Values)

NietzscheÆs Fatalism

Politics

Nietzsche contra Liberalism on Freedom

Nietzsche and National Identity

Aesthetics

Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics

Nietzsche, Dionysus, and the Ontology of Music

Evolution & Life: The Will to Power

Nietzsche and Evolutionary Theory

Life and Self-Overcoming

NietzscheÆs Theory of the Will to Power

A Critique of the Will to Power

Index

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