Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy / edited by Ken Gemes and Simon May.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gemes, Ken.

May, Simon

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Liberty.

Autonomy (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xx, 272 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency, the 'will to nothingness', and the 'eternal recurrence', as well as to his search for a 'genealogical' understanding of morality. These twelve essays by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does Nietzsche's celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming? The depth in which these and related issues are explored gives this volume its value, not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to all who are concerned with the free will debate, ethics, theory of action, and the history of philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction / Simon May

Nietzsche, the self, and the disunity of philosophical reason / Sebastian Gardner

Nietzsche on free will, autonomy, and the sovereign individual / Ken Gemes

Autonomy, affect, and the self in Nietzsche's project of genealogy / Christopher Janaway

How to overcome oneself: Nietzsche on freedom / Robert Pippin

Nihilism and the free self / Simon May

Nietzsche's theory of the will / Brian Leiter

Nietzsche's freedoms / John Richardson

Nietzschean freedom / Peter Poellner

Nietzsche's intentions: what the sovereign individual promises / Aaron Ridley

Autonomy, self-respect, and self-love: Nietzsche on ethical agency / David Owen

The eternal recurrence: a Freudian look at what Nietzsche took to be his greatest insight / Mathias Risse

Nietzsche on the will: an analysis of BGE19 / Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780199231560

0199231567

OCLC:

276817447

Publisher Number:

99934966652