Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy

by Paul S. Loeb (Editor), Matthew Meyer (Editor)

Overview

Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however, scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of Nietzsche's project, namely his desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy that has been used to assess his merits as a philosopher. In other words, contemporary scholarship has overlooked Nietzsche's contributions to metaphilosophy, i.e. debates around the nature, methods, and aims of philosophy. This important new collection of essays brings together an international group of distinguished scholars to explore and discuss these contributions and debates. It will appeal to anyone interested in metaphilosophy, Nietzsche studies, German studies, or intellectual history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108395045
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/07/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Paul S. Loeb is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Puget Sound, Washington. He is the author of The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Cambridge, 2010) and Unpublished Fragments from the Period of 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' (2019).
Matthew Meyer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Scranton. He is the author of Reading Nietzsche through the Ancients: An Analysis of Becoming, Perspectivism, and the Principle of Non-Contradiction (2014) and Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

Introduction Paul S. Loeb and Matthew Meyer; Part I. Evolving Metaphilosophies: 1. Metaphilosophy and 'natural history' Marco Brusotti; 2. The dialectics of Nietzsche's metaphilosophies Matthew Meyer; 3. Nietzsche as metaphilosopher Antoine Panaïoti; Part II. The Nature of Philosophy: 4. The relationship between science and philosophy as a key feature of Nietzsche's metaphilosophy Rebecca Bamford; 5. Genuine philosophers, value-creation, and will to power: an exegesis of Beyond Good and Evil §211 Paul S. Loeb; 6. Nietzsche's masks: philosophy and religion in Beyond Good and Evil Robert B. Pippin; Part III. The Method of Philosophy: 7. Nietzsche's affective perspectivism as a philosophical methodology Mark Alfano; 8. Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism Tsarina Doyle; 9. Nietzsche's moral methodology Paul Katsafanas; Part IV. The Aims of Philosophy: 10. Nietzsche's aesthetic conception of philosophy: a (post-Kantian) interpretation of The Gay Science João Constâncio; 11. Metaphilosophy and metapolitics in Nietzsche and Heidegger Beatrix Himmelmann; 12. Nietzsche's psychology of metaphysics (or, metaphysics as revenge) Scott Jenkins; 13. 'The great seriousness begins': Nietzsche's tragic philosophy and philosophy's role in creating healthier racialized identities Jacqueline Scott.

Editorial Reviews

‘Loeb and Meyer have assembled a well-rounded cast of internationally recognized scholars to address the long-unanswered question: 'What exactly is philosophy for Nietzsche?' The resulting volume presents many sides to this crucial problem in a judicious and highly learned fashion.' Anthony K. Jensen, Providence College, Rhode Island

‘The editors of this volume, Paul S. Loeb and Matthew Meyer, have gathered a number of exciting essays on the general topic of Nietzsche's metaphilosophy - a topic which has not enjoyed such detailed and close treatment in Anglo-American scholarship as is provided here.’ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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