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Individuality and Beyond, Benedetta Zavatta offers a new philosophical interpretation of the impact that Emerson's work had on a range of Nietzsche's ideas. Zavatta provides new insights into this relationship by drawing on the marginal markings and annotations that Nietzsche made in his copies of Emerson's works, which have been discovered in Nietzsche's personal library.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The Reception of the Emerson-Nietzsche Relation
- Chapter Two: The Struggle Against Fate
- Chapter Three: Self-Reliance as Moral Autonomy and Original Self-Expression
- Chapter Four: Society or Solitude?
- Chapter Five: Making History and Writing History
- Conclusion: Individuality and Beyond
- References
- Index
- A companion website contains an appendix of high-resolution photographs of Nietzsche's marginalia and other hand-written commentary.
About the author
Benedetta Zavatta is Marie Curie Fellow Researcher at the ITEM (CNRS/ENS) Paris. She is currently a member of the HyperNietzsche Association, the International Society for Nietzsche Studies (ISNS), and the Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano. Her principal research interest is German philosophy of the 19th Century, with attention to Nietzsche and his sources. Zavatta has been Research Fellow at the Weimar Classics Foundation, the Deutsches Seminar of Basel University, the LMU Munich, the University of Oxford, the New University of Lisbon, and Columbia University in New York. She has also participated in various European projects in the field of Digital Humanities (HyperNietzsche, Discovery, Agora, among others).
Summary
In Individuality and Beyond, Benedetta Zavatta offers a new philosophical interpretation of the impact that Emerson's work had on a range of Nietzsche's ideas. Zavatta provides new insights into this relationship by drawing on the marginal markings and annotations that Nietzsche made in his copies of Emerson's works, which have been discovered in Nietzsche's personal library.
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This is an exceptionally rich book. Zavatta's discussions of Emerson are lucid and compelling, and her readings of Nietzsche offer a number of fresh insights. Zavatta shows that although Nietzsche rejects many of Emerson's metaphysical views, he nonetheless develops certain Emersonian insights about the nature of agency, freedom, individuality, and the great individual's relation to society. Zavatta's discussions of Nietzschean freedom, Nietzsche's endorsement of virtuous egoism, and the individual's relation to culture are especially illuminating and will advance the debates on these long-disputed topics.
