A Companion to Nietzsche

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Keith Ansell-Pearson
John Wiley & Sons, Aug 24, 2011 - Philosophy - 624 pages

A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship.

  • Brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche.
  • Showcases the latest trends in Nietzsche scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche's philosophy of time, of nature, and of life.
  • Includes clearly organized sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's New Philosophy of the Future; Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; Evolution and Life.
  • Features fresh treatments of Nietzsche’s core and enigmatic doctrines.
 

Selected pages

Contents

Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism
22
ART NATURE AND INDIVIDUATION 39
41
Nietzsche on Individuation and Purposiveness in Nature
58
The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche
76
NIETZSCHES PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE 95
95
Nietzsche and Philosophical Anthropology
115
Nietzsches Philosophy and True Religion
133
The Naturalisms of Beyond Good and Evil
148
PHILOSOPHY AND GENEALOGY
335
The Philosophical Function of Genealogy
353
Agent and Deed in Nietzsches Genealogy of Morals
371
ETHICS
387
On the Revaluation of All Values
404
Nietzsches Fatalism
419
POLITICS
435
Nietzsche and National Identity
455

ETERNAL RECURRENCE THE OVERHUMAN
169
Nietzsche and Cosmology
189
Nietzsche on Time and Becoming
208
Towards the Overhuman
230
Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche
250
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
271
Phenomenology and Science in Nietzsche
297
Naturalism and Nietzsches Moral Psychology
314
AESTHETICS
475
Nietzsche Dionysus and the Ontology of Music
495
THE WILL TO POWER
515
Life and SelfOvercoming
532
Nietzsches Theory of the Will to Power
548
A Critique of the Will to Power
565
Index
583
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About the author (2011)

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He co-founded the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and is renowned for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze. He is co-editor, with Duncan Large, of The Nietzsche Reader (Blackwell, 2006).

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Nietzsche
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
EditorKeith Ansell-Pearson
Editionreprint
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444356178, 9781444356175
Length624 pages
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Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
  
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