Nietzsche A Critical Reader

by Sedgwick, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780631190455
• ISBN10: 0631190457
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume collects together for the very first time a record of the key readings which comprise the three principal traditions or methodologies of Nietzsche interpretation: the Anglo-American, German, and French traditions

Author Biography

Peter R. Sedgwick is Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Wales, College of Cardiff. His publications are in 19th-century continental philosophy and contemporary post-analytic philosophy.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Nietzsche's Institutions	p. 1
The Significance of Michel Foucault's Reading of Nietzsche: Power, the Subject, and Political Theory	p. 13
Returning to Nature: Nietzsche's Gotterdammerung	p. 31
Interpreting Signatures (Nietzsche/Heidegger): Two Questions	p. 53
Nietzsche, Ethics and Sexual Difference	p. 69
Weber, Nietzsche and Music	p. 84
Kant's Doctrine of the Beautiful: Its Misinterpretation by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche	p. 104
Theories and Innovations in Nietzsche: Logic, Theory of Knowledge and Metaphysics	p. 111
Nietzsche's Attitude toward Socrates	p. 123
Accessories (Ecce Homo, 'Why I Write Such Good Books', 'The Untimelies', 3)	p. 144
Shamanic Nietzsche	p. 158
Traces of Discordance: Heidegger-Nietzsche	p. 171
Nietzsche and Critical Theory	p. 203
Zarathustra/Zarathustra as Educator	p. 222
Putting Nietzsche to Work: The Case of Gilles Deleuze	p. 250
The 'Spider's Web' and the 'Tool' Nietzsche vis-a-vis Rorty on Metaphor	p. 276
Select Bibliography	p. 294
Index	p. 297
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