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Informationen zum Autor Simon May is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at King's College, University of London. His monographs include Nietzsche's Ethics and His War on 'Morality' (1999), a book of his own aphorisms entitled Thinking Aloud: A Collection of Aphorisms (2009), and Love: A History (2011). Klappentext This book features original scholarly essays by leading philosophers, which bring to life Nietzsche's most challenging work of ethics. Zusammenfassung Where does our contemporary morality come from and what purposes does it really serve? What would post-moral values look like? Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality tackles such central questions of ethics with unsurpassed brilliance and here fourteen leading philosophers mine that work for answers to these and other questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on texts, translations, references; Introduction Simon May; 1. The future of evil Raymond Geuss; 2. On the nobility of Nietzsche's priests R. Lanier Anderson; 3. The genealogy of guilt Bernard Reginster; 4. Why Nietzsche is still in the morality game Simon May; 5. Who is the 'sovereign individual'? Nietzsche on freedom Brian Leiter; 6. Ressentiment and morality Peter Poellner; 7. The role of life in the Genealogy Nadeem Hussain; 8. The relevance of history for moral philosophy: a study of Nietzsche's Genealogy Paul Katsafanas; 9. Why would master morality surrender its power? Lawrence Hatab; 10. 'Genealogy' and the Genealogy Peter Kail; 11. The promising animal: the art of reading On the Genealogy of Morality as testimony Stephen Mulhall; 12. Nietzsche and the 'aesthetics of character' Edward Harcourt; 13. Nietzsche and the virtues of mature egoism Christine Swanton; 14. Une promesse de bonheur? Beauty in the Genealogy Aaron Ridley; Bibliography; Index.
