Nietzsche on ethics and politics / Maudemarie Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Maudemarie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Ethics.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

viii, 311 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

This volume brings together three new and eleven previously published articles by the prominent Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark. In three sections devoted to Nietzsche's ethics, politics, and metaphysics, respectively, Clark illuminates a range of topics, including free will, misogyny, and empiricism, and examines Nietzsche as a queer subject. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Ethics

1 Nietzsche's Immoralism and the Concept of Morality 23

2 On the Rejection of Morality: Bernard Williams's Debt to Nietzsche 41

3 Nietzsche's Contribution to Ethics 62

4 Nietzsche on Free Will, Causality, and Responsibility 75

5 Nietzsche and Moral Objectivity: The Development of Nietzsche's Metaethics (co-authored with David Dudrick) 97

Part II Politics

6 Bloom and Nietzsche 133

7 Nietzsche's Misogyny 141

8 On Queering Nietzsche 151

9 Nietzsche's Antidemocratic Rhetoric 164

10 The Good of Community (co-authored with Monique Wonderly) 184

Part III Metaphysics

11 Deconstructing The Birth of Tragedy 203

12 On Knowledge, Truth, and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism 213

13 Nietzsche as Anti-metaphysician 250

14 Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology: Will to Power as Theory of the Soul (co-authored with David Dudrick) 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199371846

0199371849

OCLC:

883651685