The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

Provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of Nietzsche's philosophy, his key works and themes, his major influences and his legacy.

Tom Stern (Edited by)

9781107161368, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 18 April 2019

464 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 3 cm, 0.78 kg

'… the volume marks an important step in Nietzsche scholarship …' Stavros Patoussis, The Agonist

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) remains one of the most challenging, influential and controversial figures in the history of philosophy. The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to his most difficult ideas, including the will to power and the affirmation of life, as well as his treatment of truth, science, art and history. An accessible introduction sets out the nineteenth-century background of Nietzsche's life and work. Individual chapters are devoted to significant texts such as The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality. Other chapters explore major influences such as Wagner and Schopenhauer, as well as examining Nietzsche's reception and investigating his enduring and often divisive legacy. The volume will be valuable for readers seeking to enhance their understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy and of his role in the development of Western thought.

Introduction: Nietzsche's life and works Tom Stern
Part I. Influences and Interlocutors: 1. What Nietzsche did and did not read Andreas Urs Sommer
2. Nietzsche's untimely antiquity James I. Porter
3. Schopenhauer: Nietzsche's antithesis and source of inspiration Robert Wicks
4. Nietzsche and Wagner Mark Berry
5. On Nietzsche's legacy Stephen Mulhall
Part II. Selected Texts: 6. The birth of tragedy: transfiguration through art Paul Raimond Daniels
7. Zarathustra: Nietzsche's rendezvous with eternity Dirk R. Johnson
8. Figurative philosophy in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil Robert B. Pippin
9. Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: moral injury and transformation Christa Davis Acampora
Part III. Truth, History and Science: 10. Nietzsche and the truth of history Anthony K. Jensen
11. Nietzsche, truth, and naturalism Christian J. Emden
12. Nietzsche on the arts and sciences Sebastian Gardner
Part IV. Will, Value and Culture: 13. The Will to Power Lawrence J. Hatab
14. Nietzsche's ethics of affirmation Tom Stern
15. Nietzsche on free will Michael N. Forster
16. Nietzsche's Germans Raymond Geuss.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]