Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future

Cambridge University Press, 9/25/2000
EAN 9780521640855, ISBN10: 0521640857

Hardcover, 280 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche calls on new philosophers to carry on the process of reinterpretation and revaluation that will constitute the philosophy of the future. This reconsideration will be pursued in what Nietzsche describes as a 'postmoral' manner. The nine prominent interpreters in this collection examine different aspects of this postmoral agenda and show how Nietzsche's efforts to reorient philosophical thinking are of great importance to the way we understand ourselves, our values, our concepts of virtue, and our morality today.

1. Nietzsche and the illusions of everyday life Ivan Soll
2. Masters without substance Rüdiger Bittner
3. Rethinking the subject
or, how one becomes other than what one is Alan D. Schrift
4. Redlichkeit
the youngest virtue Alan White
5. Morality as psychology, psychology as morality
Nietzsche, Eros, and clumsy lovers Robert Pippin
6. On the rejection of morality
Bernard Williams' debt to Nietzsche Maudemarie Clark
7. Nietzsche's virtues
a personal inquiry Robert Solomon
8. Nietzschean normativity Richard Schacht
9. Nietzsche's perfectionism James Conant.