The Nietzschean Mind
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Philosophical Minds
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9781315146317; 9781351380058; 9781351380034
Description: "Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. As a German philosopher and cultural critic his work has had and continues to have a significant influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. The Nietzschean Mind seeks to provide a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising twenty-eight chapters by a team of international contributors the volume is divided into seven parts:" Major works" Philosophical psychology and agency" The self" Value " Culture, society and politics" Metaphysics and epistemology" The affirmation of life This handbook includes coverage of all major aspects of Nietzsche's thought, including his discussions of value, culture, society, the self, agency, action, philosophical psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics; explorations of the philosophical and scientific influences upon Nietzsche's thought and discussion of Nietzsche's major works. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Nietzsche's work is central to ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Major works  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter Introduction  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter 1 Nietzsche on Enlightenment and Fanaticism --; title: On the middle writings  -- Keith Ansell-Pearson; title: chapter 2 Dawn  -- Rebecca Bamford; title: chapter 3 The Gay Science  -- Scott Jenkins; title: chapter 4 Nietzsche's Critical Legacy and Beyond Good and Evil  -- Christa Davis Acampora; title: chapter 5 We Need a Critique of Moral Values --; title: Regarding On the Genealogy of Morality and normativity  -- Allison Merrick; title: chapter 6 The Antichrist as a Guide to Nietzsche's Mature Ethical Theory  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: part, II Philosophical psychology and agency  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter 7 The Will to Power  -- Bernard Reginster; title: chapter 8 A Schooling in Contempt --; title: Emotions and the pathos of distance  -- Mark Alfano; title: chapter 9 Nietzsche's Modest Theory of Agency  -- Tom Bailey; title: chapter 10 Nietzsche's Humean (All-Too-Humean!) Theory of Motivation  -- Neil Sinhababu; title: part, III The self  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter 11 Nietzschean Wholeness  -- Gabriel Zamosc; title: chapter 12 A Tale of Two Selves --; title: Nietzsche and the contemporary debates on the self  -- Mattia Riccardi; title: chapter 13 Nietzsche and the Self  -- Donald Rutherford; title: chapter 14 Nietzsche and Self-Constitution  -- Ariela Tubert; title: part, IV Value  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter 15 Value and Nature in Nietzsche  -- P.J.E. Kail; title: chapter 16 Nietzsche and Contemporary Metaethics  -- Alex Silk; title: chapter 17 Nietzsche's Metaethics --; title: Fictionalism for the few, error theory for the many  -- Reid Blackman; title: chapter 18 Philosophy as 'Free-Spiritedness' --; title: Philosophical evaluative judgments and post-Kantian aesthetics in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil  -- Maria João Mayer Branco João Constâncio; title: part, V Culture, society, and politics  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter 19 Constructing the Agon  -- David Owen; title: chapter 20 Nietzsche's Agon  -- Herman Siemens; title: chapter 21 Nietzsche on Spiritual Health and Cultural Pathology  -- Frederick Neuhouser; title: chapter 22 Genealogy and Social Practices  -- Robert Guay; title: part, VI Metaphysics and epistemology  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter 23 Nietzsche's Ontic Structural Realism?  -- Matthew Meyer; title: chapter 24 Against 'Egypticism' --; title: Nietzsche on understanding and 'defining' concepts  -- Andrew Huddleston; title: chapter 25 The Will to a System --; title: Nietzsche on philosophy as psychopathology  -- Jessica N. Berry; title: part, VII The affirmation of life  -- Paul Katsafanas; title: chapter 26 The Socratic Justification of Existence --; title: Nietzsche on Wissenschaft and existential meaning  -- Daniel Came; title: chapter 27 The Colossal Moment in Nietzsche's Gay Science ʹ 341  -- Paul S. Loeb; title: chapter 28 Nietzsche and the Affirmation of Life -- Béatrice Han-Pile.