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Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy
Ken Gemes and Simon May
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 i ... More
Keywords: freedom, sovereignty, autonomy, Nietzsche, free will, ethics, theory of action, genealogical, eternal recurrence, agency
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199231560 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231560.001.0001 |
