Title: Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy /
Authors: Gemes, Ken.; May, Simon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,; Liberty.; Autonomy (Philosophy)
Abstract: Nietzsche is a central figure in our modern understanding of the individual as freely determining his or her own values. These essays by leading Nietzsche scholars investigate what this freedom really means.
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.