Product Description

A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship.

• Brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established scholars, including many of the leading commentators and interpreters of Nietzsche.
  
• Showcases the latest trends in Nietzsche scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche’s philosophy of time, of nature, and of life.
  
• Includes clearly organized sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's New Philosophy of the Future; Eternal Recurrence, the Overhuman, and Nihilism; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; Evolution and Life.
  
• Features fresh treatments of Nietzsche’s core and enigmatic doctrines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #946100 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 616 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781405190763
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• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Its thirty-one commentaries offer comprehensive coverage of the significant areas of philosophical concern to Nietzsche. This collection is without doubt a very significant contribution to Nietzsche studies." International Journal of Philosophical Studies

“This is a monster of a book, in the true Nietzschean sense. The collection represents most of the very best Nietzsche scholarship being done today in Europe and the United States.” Graham Parkes, University of Hawaii

“This new addition to an excellent series assembles an inspired cast of Nietzsche scholars, representing a wide spectrum of approaches. After two helpful introductions to Nietzsche's life, philosophy, and style, the essays address the most familiar Nietzschean themes, as well as important but more neglected ones, such as his conception of science.” David Cooper, University of Durham

"Historiographically and critically, this companion could not be better. It is a gateway to what is going on now critically in this feild, an introduction to the best criticism, and an exemplar of philosophical inquiry in it's own right." Stuart Hannabuss, Abeedeen Business School

"This worthwhile collection portrays many of the most preeminent Nietzschean scholars in Europe and the US . . . It offers a moving array of Nietzsche scholars who represent a plethora of approaches. Recommended."
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From the Back Cover
Nietzsche’s philosophy exercised a mesmerizing influence on twentieth-century thought, and continues to be a significant source of inspiration for work in all the major branches of philosophical inquiry. A Companion to Nietzsche showcases contemporary research and scholarship, and provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy.

The volume opens with an introduction to Nietzsche’s life and thought and an essay on his art of the aphorism. This is followed by major sections on Art, Nature, and Individuation; Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Future; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy and Genealogy; Ethics; Politics; Aesthetics; and Evolution and Life. In addition, there are fresh treatments of Nietzsche’s core and enigmatic doctrines such as eternal recurrence, the will to power, and the overhuman. The volume profiles the latest research into Nietzsche’s texts (published and unpublished) and reflects trends in recent scholarship, such as the renewed focus on Nietzsche’s naturalism and interest in his philosophy of time, of nature, and of life.

Contributors include both rising stars and established scholars and form an international cast comprising many of the leading commentators on and interpreters of Nietzsche.

About the Author
Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He co-founded the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and is renowned for his work on Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze. He is co-editor, with Duncan Large, of The Nietzsche Reader (Blackwell, 2006).

Customer Reviews

I've found companionship in the Blackwell Companion to Nietzsche
As a senior undergraduate English/Philosophy major, this book has been invaluable to my studies. I am about to finish an independent study focusing on N's relationship with Gothic literature, and I've used eight articles just from this book to help pin down and express his theories (those interested in N, I also suggest "What Nietzsche Really Said" by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins (who are also published in the Blackwell Companion), which has been an extremely informative and down to earth read... but I digress). Anyway, I would suggest this book to anyone who has had some preliminary study in N's theories, or who has read a few of his books and is looking for some more specific tailoring of his ideas. I wouldn't start off with it though, as some of the essays are pretty complex, and require a fair amount of exposure to N.