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Informationen zum Autor Ken Gemes came to Birkbeck in 2000 having taught for ten years at Yale University. In 2007 he took a Readership at Southampton University. His interests range from technical issues concerning logical content and confirmation to Nietzsche's account of how philosophy is merely the last manifestation of the ascetic ideal.Simon May is College Research Fellow in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research interests are in German philosophy, especially Nietzsche and Heidegger, and in ethics and the emotions. He is author of Nietzsche's Ethics and His War on 'Morality' (OUP, 1999), a collection of his own aphorisms entitled The Pocket Philosopher: A Handbook of Aphorisms (Metro Books, 1999, second edition 2005, also published in Italian, Spanish and Dutch), Love: A Philosophical Investigation (Yale University Press, forthcoming), and other books. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Note on texts, translations and references 1: Sebastian Gardner: Nietzsche, the Self, and the Disunity of Philosophical Reason 2: Ken Gemes: Nietzsche on Free Will, Autonomy and the Sovereign Individual 3: Chris Janaway: Autonomy, Affect and the Self in Nietzsche's Project of Genealogy. 4: Robert Pippin: How to Overcome Oneself: Nietzsche on Freedom 5: Simon May: Nihilism and the Free Self 6: Brian Leiter: Nietzsche's Theory of the Will 7: John Richardson: Nietzsche's Freedoms 8: Peter Poellner: Nietzschean Freedom 9: Aaron Ridley: Nietzsche's Intentions: What the Sovereign Individual Promises 10: David Owen: Autonomy, Self-Respect and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency 11: Mathias Risse: The Eternal Recurrence: A Freudian Look at What Nietzsche Took to be His Greatest Insight 12: Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick: Nietzsche on the Will: An Analysis of BGE 19 Index ...
