A Companion to Nietzsche

Copyright © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Nietzsche

Editor(s): Keith Ansell Pearson

Published Online: 10 DEC 2007

Print ISBN: 9781405116220

Online ISBN: 9780470751374

DOI: 10.1002/9780470751374

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A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship.


  • Brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche.
  • Showcases the latest trends in Nietzsche scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche's philosophy of time, of nature, and of life.
  • Includes clearly organized sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's New Philosophy of the Future; Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; Evolution and Life.
  • Features fresh treatments of Nietzsche's core and enigmatic doctrines.

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xxii)

    1. Chapter 1

      Friedrich Nietzsche: An Introduction to his Thought, Life, and Work (pages 1–21)

      Keith Ansell Pearson

    1. Chapter 2

      Nietzsche and the Art of the Aphorism (pages 22–37)

      Jill Marsden

  4. Part I: Art, Nature, and Individuation

    1. Chapter 3

      The Aesthetic Justification of Existence (pages 39–57)

      Daniel Came

    2. Chapter 4

      Nietzsche on Individuation and Purposiveness in Nature (pages 58–75)

      Elaine P. Miller

    3. Chapter 5

      The Individual and Individuality in Nietzsche (pages 76–94)

      Nuno Nabais

  5. Part II: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Future

    1. Chapter 6

      Nietzsche's “Gay” Science (pages 95–114)

      Babette E. Babich

    2. Chapter 7

      Nietzsche and Philosophical Anthropology (pages 115–132)

      Richard Schacht

    3. Chapter 8

      Nietzsche's Philosophy and True Religion (pages 133–147)

      Laurence Lampert

    4. Chapter 9

      The Naturalisms of Beyond Good and Evil (pages 148–167)

      Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick

  6. Part III: Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism

    1. Chapter 10

      Identity and Eternal Recurrence (pages 169–188)

      Paul S. Loeb

    2. Chapter 11

      Nietzsche and Cosmology (pages 189–207)

      Robin Small

    3. Chapter 12

      Nietzsche on Time and Becoming (pages 208–229)

      John Richardson

    4. Chapter 13

      The Incorporation of Truth: Towards the Overhuman (pages 230–249)

      Keith Ansell Pearson

    5. Chapter 14

      Nihilism and Skepticism in Nietzsche (pages 250–269)

      Andreas Urs Sommer

  7. Part IV: Philosophy of Mind

    1. Chapter 15

      The Body, the Self, and the Ego (pages 271–296)

      Volker Gerhardt

    2. Chapter 16

      Phenomenology and Science in Nietzsche (pages 297–313)

      Peter Poellner

    3. Chapter 17

      Naturalism and Nietzsche's Moral Psychology (pages 314–333)

      Christa Davis Acampora

  8. Part V: Philosophy and Genealogy

    1. Chapter 18

      Naturalism and Genealogy (pages 335–352)

      Christopher Janaway

    2. Chapter 19

      The Philosophical Function of Genealogy (pages 353–370)

      Robert Guay

    3. Chapter 20

      Agent and Deed in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals (pages 371–386)

      Robert B. Pippin

  9. Part VI: Ethics

    1. Chapter 21

      Nietzsche and Ethics (pages 387–403)

      Paul J. M. van Tongeren

    2. Chapter 22

      Rebaptizing our Evil: On the Revaluation of All Values (pages 404–418)

      Kathleen Marie Higgins

    3. Chapter 23

      Nietzsche's Fatalism (pages 419–434)

      Robert C. Solomon

  10. Part VII: Politics

    1. Chapter 24

      Nietzsche contra Liberalism on Freedom (pages 435–454)

      Herman Siemens

    2. Chapter 25

      Nietzsche and National Identity (pages 455–474)

      Diane Morgan

  11. Part VIII: Aesthetics

    1. Chapter 26

      Nietzsche on Geophilosophy and Geoaesthetics (pages 475–494)

      Gary Shapiro

    2. Chapter 27

      Nietzsche, Dionysus, and the Ontology of Music (pages 495–513)

      Christoph Cox

  12. Part IX: Evolution and Life: The will to Power

    1. Chapter 28

      Nietzsche and Evolutionary Theory (pages 515–531)

      Gregory Moore

    2. Chapter 29

      Life and Self-Overcoming (pages 532–547)

      Daniel W. Conway

    3. Chapter 30

      Nietzsche's Theory of the Will to Power (pages 548–564)

      James I. Porter

    4. Chapter 31

      A Critique of the Will to Power (pages 565–582)

      Henry Staten

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      Index (pages 583–600)

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