Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ken Gemes and Simon May

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454916603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-19-969468-0; 1-282-26853-8; 9786612268533; 0-19-156888-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GemesKen; MaySimon
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: Liberty; Autonomy (Philosophy); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Simon May -- Nietzsche, the self, and the disunity of philosophical reason / Sebastian Gardner -- Nietzsche on free will, autonomy, and the sovereign individual / Ken Gemes -- Autonomy, affect, and the self in Nietzsche's project of genealogy / Christopher Janaway -- How to overcome oneself: Nietzsche on freedom / Robert Pippin -- Nihilism and the free self / Simon May -- Nietzsche's theory of the will / Brian Leiter -- Nietzsche's freedoms / John Richardson -- Nietzschean freedom / Peter Poellner -- Nietzsche's intentions: what the sovereign individual promises / Aaron Ridley -- Autonomy, self-respect, and self-love: Nietzsche on ethical agency / David Owen -- The eternal recurrence: a Freudian look at what Nietzsche took to be his greatest insight / Mathias Risse -- Nietzsche on the will: an analysis of BGE19 / Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick.
• Sommario/riassunto: Nietzsche is a central figure in our modern understanding of the individual as freely determining his or her own values. These essays by leading Nietzsche scholars investigate what this freedom really means: How free are we really? What does it take to be free? It might be a ; 'right', but it also needs to be earned. - ;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 lif