Nietzsche and the problem of sovereignty
By: Richard J. White.
Series: International Nietzsche studies
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
Description: From The Birth of Tragedy on, Nietzsche worked to comprehend the nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired and guided by the question of personal "sovereignty" and how through his writings sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described. White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age must therefore come to understand if we are ever to secure a genuinely meaningful direction for the future.

Profoundly relevant to our era, Nietzsche's philosophy addresses a version of individuality that allows us to move beyond the self-dispossession of mass society and the alternative of selfish individualism - to fully understand how one becomes what one is.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Abbreviations; title: Introduction : reading Nietzsche; title: On the value of the individual; title: The genealogy of sovereignty : St. Paul, Kant, Schopenhauer; title: The individual and the birth of tragedy; title: Against idealism; title: Zarathustra and the teaching of sovereignty; title: The return of the master; title: Ecce homo, or the revaluation of values; title: Nietzsche and the philosophy of the future; title: Afterword; title: Notes; title: Index.