Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals Critical Essays

by Acampora, Christa Davis; Pearson, Keith Ansell; Babich, Babette; Blondel, Eric; Conway, Daniel; Gemes, Ken; Habermas, Jürgen; Kemal, Salim; Loeb, Paul S.; Migotti, Mark; Müller-Lauter, Wolfgang; Nehamas, Alexander; Owen, David; Pippin, Robert; Ridley, Aar

• ISBN13: 9780742542631
• ISBN10: 0742542637
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-08
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this astonishingly rich volume, experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship on what is arguably Nietzsche's most rewarding but more challenging texts. 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. A lengthy introduction, annotated bibliography, and index make this an extremely useful guide for the classroom and advanced research.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Abbreviations, Citations, and Translations of Nietzsche's Works	xi
Introduction
In the Beginning: Reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals from the Start	1	(108)
Christa Davis Acampora
Part I. On Genealogy
1 A "Dionysian Drama on the 'Fate of the Soul' An Introduction to Reading On the Genealogy of Morality	19	(20)
Keith Ansell Pearson
2 Nietzsche, Re-evaluation, and the Turn to Genealogy	39	(18)
David Owen
3 The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals	57	(10)
Alexander Nehamas
4 Nietzsche's Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy	67	(10)
Eric Blondel
5 Nietzsche and the Re-evaluation of Values	77	(16)
Aaron Ridley
6 Genealogy, the Will to Power, and the Problem of a Past	93	(16)
Tracy B. Strong
Part II. Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy—Focused Analyses of Parts and Passages
7 Slave Morality, Socrates, and the Bushmen: A Critical Introduction to On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay I	109	(22)
Mark Migotti
8 Lightning and Flash, Agent and Deed (GM I:6-17)	131	(16)
Robert B. Pippin
9 On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy 11:2	147	(16)
Chrism Davis Acampora
10 Finding the Ubermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality	163	(14)
Paul S. Loeb
11 The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic	177	(14)
Babette E. Babich
12 "We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves": The Key Message of Nietzsche's Genealogy	191	(18)
Ken Genres
13 Nihilism as Will to Nothingness	209	(14)
Wolfgang Müller-Lauter
Part III. Critiquing Genealogy
14 The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment	223	(10)
Jürgen Haberman
15 Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and the Genealogy of Morals	233	(12)
Gary Shapiro
16 Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and State	245	(14)
Alan D. Schrift
Part IV. On Politics and Community
17 Nietzsche's Genealogy: Of Beauty and Community	259	(18)
Salim Kemal
18 Nietzsche and the Jews: The Structure of an Ambivalence	277	(14)
Yirmiyahu Yovel
19 Nietzschean Virtue Ethics	291	(14)
Christine Swanton
20 How We Became What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"	305	(16)
Daniel W. Conway
Bibliography	321	(6)
Index	327	(8)
About the Contributors	335