The Nietzschean Mind

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His work continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, cultural criticism and modern intellectual history. The Nietzschean Mind seeks to provide a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising twenty-eight chapters by a team of international contributors, the volume is divided into seven parts:　 • Major works • Philosophical psychology and agency • The self • Value • Culture, society and politics • Metaphysics and epistemology • The affirmation of life This handbook includes coverage of all major aspects of Nietzsche’s thought, including his discussions of value, culture, society, the self, agency, action, philosophical psychology, epistemology and metaphysics; explorations of the philosophical and scientific influences upon Nietzsche’s thought; and discussion of Nietzsche’s major works. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Nietzsche’s work is central to ethics, moral psychology and political philosophy. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 Abbreviations of Nietzsche’s works......Page 9 Contributors......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 PART I Major works......Page 22 1 Nietzsche on enlightenment and fanaticism: on the middle writings......Page 24 2 Dawn......Page 38 3 The Gay Science......Page 54 4 Nietzsche’s critical legacy and Beyond Good and Evil......Page 68 5 We need a critique of moral values: regarding On the Genealogy of Morality and normativity......Page 83 6 The Antichrist as a guide to Nietzsche’s mature ethical theory......Page 96 PART II Philosophical psychology and agency......Page 116 7 The will to power......Page 118 8 A schooling in contempt: emotions and the pathos of distance......Page 134 9 Nietzsche’s modest theory of agency......Page 153 10 Nietzsche’s Humean (all-too-Humean!) theory of motivation......Page 165 PART III The self......Page 180 11 Nietzschean wholeness......Page 182 12 A tale of two selves: Nietzsche and the contemporary debates on the self......Page 199 13 Nietzsche and the self......Page 214 14 Nietzsche and self-constitution......Page 231 PART IV Value......Page 244 15 Value and nature in Nietzsche......Page 246 16 Nietzsche and contemporary metaethics......Page 260 17 Nietzsche’s metaethics: fictionalism for the few, error theory for the many......Page 277 18 Philosophy as ‘free-spiritedness’: philosophical evaluative judgments and post-Kantian aesthetics in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil......Page 295 PART V Culture, society, and politics......Page 310 19 Constructing the agon......Page 312 20 Nietzsche’s agon......Page 327 21 Nietzsche on spiritual health and cultural pathology......Page 347 22 Genealogy and social practices......Page 360 PART VI Metaphysics and epistemology......Page 376 23 Nietzsche’s ontic structural realism?......Page 378 24 Against ‘Egypticism’: Nietzsche on understanding and ‘defining’ concepts......Page 394 25 The will to a system: Nietzsche on philosophy as psychopathology......Page 408 PART VII The affirmation of life......Page 426 26 The Socratic justification of existence: Nietzsche on Wissenschaft and existential meaning......Page 428 27 The colossal moment in Nietzsche’s Gay Science § 341......Page 441 28 Nietzsche and the affirmation of life......Page 461 Index......Page 482