Nietzsche and Friendship

Willow Verkerk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17717-8 (ISBN)

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In Nietzsche and Friendship, Willow Verkerk provides a new and provocative account of Nietzsche’s philosophy which identifies him as an agonistic thinker concerned with the topics of love and friendship. She argues that Nietzsche’s challenges to the received principles of friendship from Aristotle to Kant offer resources for reinvigorating our thinking about friendship today. Through an examination of his free spirit texts, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak and The Gay Science together with Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, Verkerk unlocks key aspects of Nietzsche’s thinking on friendship, love, ‘woman’, the self, self-overcoming, virtue, and character. She questions Nietzsche’s misogyny, but also considers the emancipatory potential of his writing by brining him into dialogue with postmodern, feminist, and transgender thinkers. This book revives interest in the ethical, therapeutic, and political dimensions of Nietzsche’s philosophy.

Willow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada and a researcher with the Gendered Mimesis Project at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Nietzsche’s Literary Gift of Friendship: Reading Nietzsche as a Joyful, Agonistic, and Bestowing Friend

Chapter 2: Nietzsche’s Re-evaluation of Friendship

Chapter 3: On Becoming What One Is: Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Concept of the Self

Chapter 4: Nietzsche and Aristotle on Character, Virtue, and the Limits of Friendship

Chapter 5: Women, Love, and the Gendered Troubles of Friendship in Nietzsche and Irigaray

Chapter 6: Abducting Woman? An Agonistic Reception of Nietzsche’s (and Derrida’s) Gifts

Conclusion: Further Re-evaluations

Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2020
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-17717-2 / 1350177172
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17717-8 / 9781350177178
Zustand	Neuware