Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals

Critical Essays

Contributions by Keith Ansell Pearson, Babette Babich, Eric Blondel, Daniel Conway, Ken Gemes, Jürgen Habermas, Salim Kemal, Paul S. Loeb, Mark Migotti, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Alexander Nehamas, David Owen, Robert Pippin, Aaron Ridley, Gary Shapiro, Alan Schrift, Tracy Strong, Christine Swanton, Yirmiyahu Yovel Edited by Christa Davis Acampora

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Publication date:

08 September 2006

Length of book:

352 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461639855

This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical scholarship what is arguably Friedrich Nietzsche's most rewarding but most challenging text. Including essays that were commissioned specifically for the volume as well as essays revised and edited by their authors, this collection showcases definitive works that have shaped Nietzsche studies alongside new works of interest to students and experts alike. Sections are devoted to the topic of genealogy generally, numerous essays on specific passages, applications of genealogy in later thinkers, and the import of Nietzsche's Genealogy in contemporary politics, ethics, and aesthetics. A lengthy introduction, annotated bibliography, and index make this an extremely useful guide for the classroom and advanced research.

Part 1 Introduction: In the Beginning: Reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals from the Start
Part 2 Part I: On Genealogy
Chapter 3 1. A "Dionysian drama on the 'fate of the soul'": An Introduction to Reading On the Genealogy of Morality
Chapter 4 2. Nietzsche, Re-evaluation and the Turn to Genealogy
Chapter 5 3. The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals
Chapter 6 4. Nietzsche's Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy
Chapter 7 5. Nietzsche and the Re-evaluation of Values
Chapter 8 6. Genealogy, the Will to Power, and the Problem of a Past
Part 9 Part II: Reading the Genealogy : Focused analyses of parts and passages
Chapter 10 7. Slave morality, Socrates, and the Bushmen: A Reading of the First Essay of On the Genealogy of Morals
Chapter 11 8. Lightning and Flash, Agent and Deed
Chapter 12 9. On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy II:2
Chapter 13 10. Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Chapter 14 11. The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic
Chapter 15 12. We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves: The key message of Nietzsche's Genealogy
Chapter 16 13. Nihilism as Will to Nothingness
Part 17 Part III: Critiquing Genealogy
Chapter 18 14. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Re-reading the Dialectic of Enlightenment
Chapter 19 15. Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and The Genealogy of Morals
Chapter 20 16. Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and State
Part 21 Part IV: On Politics and Community
Chapter 22 17. Nietzsche's Genealogy: Of Beauty and Community
Chapter 23 18. Nietzsche and the Jews: The Structure of Ambivalence
Chapter 24 19. Nietzschean Viture Ethics
Chapter 25 How We Become What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"

This is an exceptionally strong collection, gathering together some of the most insightful commentary on Nietzsche's most important book, of leading scholars in North America, Europe and beyond over the last twenty years. This substantial new volume is a very welcome contribution to the literature and ought to occupy a prominent place on any list of recommended reading for students of Nietzsche's text.