Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics

This volume brings together fourteen mostly previously published articles by the prominent Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark. Thus, it will allow readers to see more easily how Clark's views fit together as a whole, exhibit important developments of her ideas, and highlight her distinctive voice in Nietzsche studies.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• I. Ethics


• 1. Nietzsche's Immoralism and the Concept of Morality


• 2. On the Rejection of Morality: Williams' Debt to Nietzsche


• 3. Nietzsche's Contribution to Ethics


• 4. Nietzsche on Free Will and Responsibility


• 5. Nietzsche and Moral Objectivity (with David Dudrick)


• II. Politics


• 6. Bloom and Nietzsche


• 7. Nietzsche's Misogyny


• 8. On Queering Nietzsche


• 9. Nietzsche's Antidemocratic Rhetoric


• 10. The Good of Community (with Monique Wonderly)


• III. Metaphysics


• 11. Deconstructing The Birth of Tragedy


• 12. On Knowledge, Truth and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism


• 13. Nietzsche as Anti-metaphysician


• 14. Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology: Will to Power as Theory of the Soul (with David Dudrick)


• Bibliography


• Acknowledgments


• Index

About the author

Maudemarie Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (1990) and co-author of The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (2012).

Summary

This volume brings together fourteen mostly previously published articles by the prominent Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark. Thus, it will allow readers to see more easily how Clark's views fit together as a whole, exhibit important developments of her ideas, and highlight her distinctive voice in Nietzsche studies.

Additional text

Perhaps my favorite part of the book is Clark's careful reconsideration of Nietzsche's highest value

Product details

• Authors: Clark , Maudemarie Clark, Maudemarie (Professor of Philosophy Clark, Clark Maudemarie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780190054960
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005496-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought