Nietzsche and Modern German Thought

by Keith Ansell-Pearson (Editor)

Overview

Nietzsche is no longer a marginal figure in the study of philosophy. This collection of specially commissioned essays reflects the emergence of a serious interest amongst philosophers, sociologists and political theorists. By considering Nietzsche's ideas in the context of the modern philosophical tradition from which it emerged, his importance in contemporary thought is refined and reaffirmed.
Modern German thought begins with Kant and has rarely escaped his influence. It is with respect to this Kantian heritage that this volume examines Nietzsche. These essays critically consider Nietzsche's relation to Kant and the post-Kantian tradition. In broad terms it is his relation to the domains of knowledge, ethics and aesthetics, that is through the three Kantian critiques, that Nietzsche's thought is illuminated. This allows a surprising variety of areas and questions, both about Nietzsche and about philosophy to be investigated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134949939
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Keith Ansell Pearson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Viroid Life and editor of Deleuze and Philosophy, also published by Routledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Keith Ansell-Pearson; Chapter 1 Nietzsche, Christianity, and the Legitimacy of Tradition, John Walker; Chapter 2 Kant, Lange, and Nietzsche: Critique of Knowledge, George J. Stack; Chapter 3 Schein in Nietzsche’s Philosophy, Robert Rethy; Chapter 4 Hermeneutics and Nietzsche’s Early Thought, Nicholas Davey; Chapter 5 Nietzsche, the Self, and Schopenhauer, Christopher Janaway; Chapter 6 Marx and Nietzsche: The Individual in History, Ian Forbes; Chapter 7 Nietzsche and the Problem of the Will in Modernity, Keith Ansell-Pearson; Chapter 8 Autonomy and Solitude, J.M. Bernstein; Chapter 9 Affirmation and Eternal Return in the Free-Spirit Trilogy, Howard Caygill; Chapter 10 Art As Insurrection: The Question of Aesthetics in Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Nick Land; Chapter 11 Reading the Future of Genealogy: Kant, Nietzsche, Plato, Michael Newman; Chapter 12 Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Metaphysics of Modernity, Robert B. Pippin;