Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy
By: edited by Ken Gemes and Simon May.
Contributors: Gemes, Ken.; May, Simon.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199231560
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Liberty; Autonomy (Philosophy)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Simon May; title: Nietzsche, the self, and the disunity of philosophical reason / Sebastian Gardner; title: Nietzsche on free will, autonomy, and the sovereign individual / Ken Gemes; title: Autonomy, affect, and the self in Nietzsche's project of genealogy / Christopher Janaway; title: How to overcome oneself: Nietzsche on freedom / Robert Pippin; title: Nihilism and the free self / Simon May; title: Nietzsche's theory of the will / Brian Leiter; title: Nietzsche's freedoms / John Richardson; title: Nietzschean freedom / Peter Poellner; title: Nietzsche's intentions: what the sovereign individual promises / Aaron Ridley; title: Autonomy, self-respect, and self-love: Nietzsche on ethical agency / David Owen; title: The eternal recurrence: a Freudian look at what Nietzsche took to be his greatest insight / Mathias Risse; title: Nietzsche on the will: an analysis of BGE19 / Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick.