A Companion to Nietzsche - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405190760 ISBN 13: 9781405190763

Publisher: WB, 2011

Synopsis

A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship.

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• Brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche.
  
• Showcases the latest trends in Nietzsche scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche’s philosophy of time, of nature, and of life.
  
• Includes clearly organized sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's New Philosophy of the Future; Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; Evolution and Life.
  
• Features fresh treatments of Nietzsche’s core and enigmatic doctrines.

About this title

Book Description:

Nietzsche's philosophy exercised a mesmerizing influence on 20th-century thought and continues to be a major source of inspiration for work in all the major branches of philosophical inquiry. A Companion to Nietzsche showcases contemporary research and scholarship, and provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy.The volume opens with an introduction to Nietzsche's life and thought and an essay on his art of the aphorism, and is then followed by major sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's New Philosophy of the Future; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; Evolution and Life. In addition, there are fresh treatments of Nietzsche's core and enigmatic doctrines, such as eternal recurrence, the will to power, and the overhuman. The volume profiles the newest research into Nietzsche's texts (published and unpublished) and reflects trends in recent scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche's naturalism and interest in his philosophy of time, of nature, and of life.Contributors include both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche, mainly from the United States and Great Britain, but also from Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, and New Zealand.

About the Author:

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He co-founded the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and is renowned for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze. He is co-editor, with Duncan Large, of The Nietzsche Reader (Blackwell, 2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: WB
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1405190760
• ISBN 13: 9781405190763
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Pearson Keith Ansell