Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199694680 ISBN 13 : 9780199694686

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011

Synopsis

The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency, the 'will to nothingness', and the 'eternal recurrence', as well as to his search for a 'genealogical' understanding of morality.
These twelve essays by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does Nietzsche's celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming?
The depth in which these and related issues are explored gives this volume its value, not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to all who are concerned with the free will debate, ethics, theory of action, and the history of philosophy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ken Gemes is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Simon May is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at King's College, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199694680
• ISBN 13: 9780199694686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Éditeur: Gemes Ken
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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