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What are the roles of human exemplars, moral perfectionism and noble ethics in our 'self-overcoming'? What place does laughter have in Nietzche's vision of the future? What contribution can Nietzsche make to the issue of humanity's relation to the natural world in an age of ecological crisis? This wide-ranging collection of essays explores various aspects of Nietzsche's thought, centred around the general issue of futurity. Contributors include such leading Nietzsche scholars as Keith Ansell Pearson, Daniel W. Conway, Kathleen Higgins, Laurence Lampert and Graham Parkes.
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KEITH ANSELL PEARSON Director of Graduate Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick GARY BANHAM Member of Hertford College, Oxford DANIEL W. CONWAY Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry, Pennsylvania State University BRIAN DOMINO Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University KATHLEEN MARIE HIGGINS Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas, Austin LAURENCE LAMPERT Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis DAVID OWEN Lecturer in Politics and Assistant Director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy, University of Southampton GRAHAM PARKES Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii JIM URPETH Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Greenwich
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0333682580
- ISBN 13 9780333682586
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages236
- EditorLippitt John
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