BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online

    Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy

    Gemes, Ken and May, S., eds. (2009) Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199231560.

    Full text not available from this repository.

    Abstract

    The principal aim of this book is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency, the ‘will to nothingness’, and the ‘eternal recurrence’, as well as to his search for a ‘genealogical’ understanding of morality. These twelve chapters by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does Nietzsche's celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming?

    Metadata

    Item Type: Book
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): freedom, sovereignty, autonomy, Nietzsche, free will, ethics, theory of action, genealogical, eternal recurrence, agency
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 05 May 2011 12:56
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:50
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/1364

    Statistics

    Activity Overview
    6 month trend
    0Downloads
    6 month trend
    217Hits

    Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.

    Archive Staff Only (login required)

    Edit/View Item
    Edit/View Item