Thomas H. Brobjer - Nietzsche and Science

Edited by
GREGORY MOORE
THOMAS H. BROBJER

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

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Friedrich Nietzsche Society. Conference (11th : 2001 :
Emmanuel College

Nietzsche and science
1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 Congresses
2. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 Knowledge of science Congresses
I. Title II. Moore, Gregory, 1972- III. Brobjer, Thomas H. 193

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nietzsche and science / edited by Gregory Moore and Thomas H. Brobjer.

p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7546-3402-7 (alk. paper)
1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900Contributions in theory of knowledge. 2. Knowledge, Theory of. 3. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900Contributions in philosophy of science. 4. SciencePhilosophy. I. Moore, Gregory, 1972- II. Brobjer, Thomas H.

B3318.K7N53 2003
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2003063711

ISBN 9780754634027 (hbk)
ISBN 9781138277588 (pbk)

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Most of the essays collected in this volume started life as papers delivered at theEleventh Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, which took placeat Emmanuel College, Cambridge between 79 September 2001. The conferencewas sponsored by the British Academy, whose financial support we here gratefullyacknowledge. Thanks also to Sarah Lloyd at Ashgate, who first invited us to puttogether this book.

Nietzsches works are abbreviated as follows:

A The Antichrist

AOM Assorted Opinions and Maxims

BGE Beyond Good and Evil

BT The Birth of Tragedy

CW The Case of Wagner

D Daybreak

DS David Strauss, the Writer and Confessor

EH Ecce Homo

FEI On the Future of our Educational Institutions

GM On the Genealogy of Morals

GS The Gay Science

HC Homers Contest

HH Human, All Too Human

HKW Werke und Briefe: Historisch-kritische Gesamtausgabe

HL On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life

KGB Briefwechsel: Kritische Gesamtausgabe

KGW Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe

KSA Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe

NCW Nietzsche contra Wagner

PTA Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

RWB Richard Wagner in Bayreuth

SE Schopenhauer as Educator

TI Twilight of the Idols

TL On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense

WS The Wanderer and his Shadow

Z Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Christa Davis Acampora is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She is the author of numerous articles on Nietzsches philosophy, published in journals such as Nietzsche-Studien, International Studies in Philosophy, and Nietzscheforschung, and she is co-editor of A Nietzschean Bestiary: Animality Beyond Docile and Brutal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). She is also nearing completion of a book manuscript on Nietzsches conception of competition.

Babette E. Babich is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and Adjunct Research Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Her books include Nietzsches Philosophy of Science (Albany, NY: SUNY Press 1994) and (as editor): Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge and Critical Theory, Nietzsche, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999) and Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science, Van Goghs Eyes, and God (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001). She is also editor of the journal New Nietzsche Studies.

Thomas H. Brobjer, Lecturer and Researcher in the Departments of the History of Ideas at Uppsala University and Stockholm University, is the author of Nietzsches Ethics of Character (Uppsala: Uppsala University Press, 1995). His more recent work has been based on exhaustive research into Nietzsches reading and extant library, the results of which have been published in Nietzsche-Studien, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, New Nietzsche Studies, International Studies in Philosophy and as contributions to a number of books.

Richard S.G. Brown, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brock University, has written widely on Nietzsche and on Indian philosophy. His essays on these topics have appeared in numerous collections.

Christian J. Emden is Assistant Professor of German at Rice University. He has published extensively on Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Max Frisch in journals such as Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fr Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, Zeitschrift fr deutsche Philologie and Oxford German Studies. He is the author of Nietzsche on Language, Rhetoric, and the Mind (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming in 2004) and is currently completing another book on Walter Benjamins historical anthropology of modernity.

Nadeem J.Z. Hussain is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. His research interests include, in addition to Nietzsche, metaethics, philosophy of action, moral psychology and Islamic philosophy.

Duncan Large is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of Nietzsche and Proust (Oxford University Press, 2001), has translated Twilight of the Idols for Oxford University Presss World Classics and is completing a translation of Ecce Homo for the same series. He is co-editor of the forthcoming The Nietzsche Reader for Blackwell.

Gregory Moore is Lecturer in German at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Secretary of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. He has published articles in Nietzsche- Studien, Journal of Nietzsche Studies and German Life and Letters, and is the author of Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Robin Small, who teaches at Auckland University, has published articles on such diverse thinkers as Hegel, Marx, Husserl and Kafka. He is the editor of A Hundred Years of Phenomenology (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001) and Paul Zees Basic Writings (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003). His most recent book is