Nietzsche, genealogy, morality : essays on Nietzsche's Genealogy of morals / edited by Richard Schacht.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schacht, Richard, 1919- editor.

Series:

Philosophical Traditions Series

Philosophical Traditions ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, German.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 479 p. )

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of Nietzsche's persisting concerns coming together in an illuminating constellation. A profound influence on psychoanalysis, antihistoricism, and poststructuralism and an abiding challenge to ethical theory, Nietzsche's book addresses many of the major philosophical problems and possibilities of modernity. In this unique collection focusing on the Genealogy, twenty-five notable philosophers offer diverse discussions of the book's central themes and concepts. They explore such notions as ressentiment, asceticism, "slave" and "master" moralities, and what Nietzsche calls "genealogy" and its relation to other forms of inquiry in his work. The book presents a cross section of contemporary Nietzsche scholarship and philosophical investigation that is certain to interest philosophers, intellectual and cultural historians, and anyone concerned with one of the master thinkers of the modern age.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (1844-1900)

NOTE ON TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS, AND REFERENCES

1. Nietzsche's Immoralism

2. Nietzsche's Immoralism and the Concept of Morality

3. Some Remarks on The Genealogy of Morals

4. On the Genealogy of Morals-Nietzsche's Gift

5. The Return of the Master: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals

6. Nietzsche and Analytic Ethics

7. One Hundred Years of Ressentiment Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals

8. Ressentiment

9. Pity and Mercy: Nietzsche's Stoicism

10. Nietzsche on Cruelty, Asceticism, and the Failure of Hedonism

11. Wagner's Ascetic Ideal According to Nietzsche

12. Nietzsche, the Jews, and Ressentiment

13. Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology

14. Nietzsche, Hume, and the Genealogical Method

15. The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals

16. Genealogies and Subversions

17. The Question of Genealogy

18. Genealogy and Critical Method

19. Perspectivism in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals

20. Debts Due and Overdue: Beginnings of Philosophy in Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Anaximander

21. Reading Ascetic Reading: Toward the Genealogy of Morals and the Path Back to the World

22. Of Morals and Menschen

23. The Rationale of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals

24. "Have I Been Understood?"

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-479).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520914049

052091404X

9780585079240

0585079242

OCLC:

1153498950