Nietzschean Self - Moral Psychology, Agency, and the Unconscious

Paul Katsafanas presents a clear, systematic study of Nietzsche's moral psychology, showing its advantages over its rivals. He examines Nietzsche's accounts of conscious and unconscious; of the connection between drives, desires, affects, and values; of freedom; of the unity of the self, and its relation to its social and historical context.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The Unconscious


• 3: Consciousness as Superficial and Falsifying


• 4: Drives


• 5: Values


• 6: Willing without a Will


• 7: The Unified Self


• 8: Self, Culture, and Society


• 9: The Free Individual


• 10: Nietzschean Moral Psychology and its Competitors


• References


• Index

About the author

Paul Katsafanas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He works on topics at the interface of ethics and philosophy of mind, including the nature of agency and motivation; the structure of self-consciousness; and the way in which normative claims might be justified. He addresses these topics in part by mining the work of nineteenth-century philosophers including Nietzsche. His recent publications include Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism (OUP, 2013), 'Fugitive Pleasure and the Meaningful Life: Nietzsche on Nihilism and Higher Values' (Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 2015), and 'Fanaticism and Sacred Values' (Philosophers' Imprint, 2018).

Summary

Paul Katsafanas presents a clear, systematic study of Nietzsche's moral psychology, showing its advantages over its rivals. He examines Nietzsche's accounts of conscious and unconscious; of the connection between drives, desires, affects, and values; of freedom; of the unity of the self, and its relation to its social and historical context.

Additional text

'well organized and clearly written, and some of the interpretive theses Katsafanas advocates present an intriguing countercurrent to some of the most popular views in contemporary Nietzsche scholarship.'

Product details

• Authors: Paul Katsafanas, Paul (Boston University) Katsafanas, Katsafanas Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780198837107
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883710-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge