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Beholding NietzscheIn Ken Gemes & John Richardson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, Oxford University Press. 2013.Ecce Homo offers Nietzsche’s own interpretation of himself, his thoughts, and his works. This article analyzes how the text bears on his ideas about agency, fate, and freedom. It presents an account of “how one becomes what one is.” For Nietzsche, a person is a set of drives ordered or ranked a certain way; there is no will or subject separate from these that could carry out the work of becoming. What is most important is that one’s drives be coordinated in a single entity. Through these tactics…Read more
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3.“Zarathustra Is Dead, Long Live Zarathustra!”“Zarathustra Is Dead, Long Live Zarathustra!”(pp. 83-93)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 41 (1). 2011.
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Autonomy, Self-Respect, and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency1In Ken Gemes & Simon May (eds.), Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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6Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women’s Writings (edited book)SUNY Press. 2012.Explores the interplay between artistic values and social, political, and moral concerns in writings by African American and Native American women.
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3810. Nietzsche Was No Lamarckian Nietzsche Was No Lamarckian (pp. 282-296)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (2): 213. 2013.ABSTRACT Nietzsche's texts invite perplexing questions about the justification and objectivity of his ethical views. According to the interpretation suggested here, Nietzsche does not advance a substantive normative ethics, but proposes, based on his ontological idea of will to power, an instrumentalist theory of value. He is not a realist about value—according to him, nothing is intrinsically valuable. However, things, actions, beliefs, and values can be evaluated with reference to their capaci…Read more
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12Naturalism and Nietzsche's Moral PsychologyIn Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell. 2006-01-01.This chapter contains sections titled: Nietzsche's (Artful) Naturalism The Subject Naturalized Nietzsche's Artful Naturalism Toward an Ethos of the Agonized Subject.
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Agonistic communities : love, war, and spheres of activityIn James S. Pearson & Herman Siemens (eds.), Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy, Bloomsbury. 2018.
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20Contesting NietzscheUniversity of Chicago Press. 2013.In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche’s philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting,…Read more
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31Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals: Critical Essays (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2006.In this astonishingly rich volume, experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship on what is arguably Nietzsche's most rewarding but most challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edited by their authors, this collection showcases definitive works that have shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new …Read more
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1Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche (review)Philosophy in Review 19 216-218. 1999.
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2Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 21 (2): 121-124. 2001.
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Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. Higgins, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (review)Philosophy in Review 17 47-49. 1997.
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14The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on the Overcoming of Nihilism : ReginsterBernard.Affirmation of life: Nietzsche on overcoming nihilism (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3): 480-481. 2009.
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1Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and the Contradictions of His Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 21 (2): 121-124. 2001.
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Kelly Oliver and Marilyn Pearsall, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Friedrich Nietzsche Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (3): 216-218. 1999.
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6Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. Higgins, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (1): 47-49. 1997.
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155This book presents a student-friendly introduction to one of Nietzsche's most widely-read and studied texts. "Beyond Good and Evil" contains Nietzsche's mature philosophy of the free spirit. Although it is one of his most widely read texts, it is a notoriously difficult piece of philosophical writing. The authors demonstrate in clear and precise terms why it is to be regarded as Nietzsche's philosophical masterpiece and the work of a revolutionary genius. This "Reader's Guide" is the ideal compa…Read more