Keith Ansell-Pearson - Nietzsche’s Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings

Nietzsches Search for Philosophy

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Nietzsches Search for Philosophy

On the Middle Writings

By Keith Ansell-Pearson

Bloomsbury Academic

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Contents

Versions of the chapters of this book were given as papers at various conferences, workshops and colloquia held at the following universities: Auckland, Birmingham, Concordia, Leiden, Liverpool, Monash (and the Monash Centre in Prato), Rice, Sydney, Texas A&M, University of North Texas at Denton, Warwick and the Royal Institute of Philosophy, London, and I am grateful for the invitations I received and to the audiences at these events for their questions and contributions. A shorter version of Chapter 1 will appear in Celine Denat & Patrick Wotling (eds.), Humain, trop humain et les dbuts de la rforme de la philosophie (Reims: ditions et presses de luniversit de Reims, 2017). A version of Chapter 2 will be published in Paul Katsafanas (ed.), The Nietzschean Mind (Routledge, 2017). Chapter 3 draws on material I first published as Nietzsche, the Sublime, and the Sublimities of Philosophy, Nietzsche-Studien , volume 39, 2010 and also for the Afterword to the Stanford University Press edition and translation of Dawn (2011). Chapter 4 utilizes material that was first published as Beyond Compassion: On Nietzsches Moral Therapy in Dawn, Continental Philosophy Review , 44: 2, 2011. Chapter 5 draws on material first published in Paul Bishop, A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works (Camden House, 2012). Chapter 6 is a modified version of an essay first published in a special issue of The Agonist , the online journal of the New York Nietzsche Circle, volume X: II, Spring 2017. It also utilizes material that was first published as Heroic-Idyllic Philosophizing: Nietzsche and the Epicurean Tradition, published in Anthony O Hear (ed.), Philosophical Traditions (Cambridge University Press: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 74, 2014). I am grateful to the editors and publishers of these publications for allowing me to republish material here.

I am indebted for support, advice and encouragement, as well as the sharing of ideas and of work, to the following people: Christa Davis Acampora, Dorian Astor, Babette Babich, Charles Bambach, Rebecca Bamford, Christine Battersby, Paul Bishop, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Frank Chouraqui, Daniel W. Conway, Christine Daigle, Carol Diethe, Christian Emden, Ken Gemes, Robert Guay, Beatrice Han-Pile, Rainer J. Hanshe, Lawrence Hatab, Kathleen Higgins, Horst Hutter, Christopher Janaway, Duncan Large, Vanessa Lemm, Paul S. Loeb, John Mandalios, Mark Migotti, Katrina Mitcheson, Simon O Sullivan, Paul Patton, James I. Porter, Martine Prange, John Richardson, Alan D. Schrift, Herman Siemens, Brittain Smith, Andreas Sommer, Werner Stegmaier, Tracy B. Strong, Patrick Wotling, Dale Wilkerson and James Williams. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Michael Ure whose work has served as a constant source of inspiration and instruction in the course of researching and writing this book. I am also grateful to the four readers of the manuscript who provided me with valuable advice that helped shape the final design of the book. The sound advice of Bob Guay and Paul Loeb is especially appreciated. I was fortunate enough to have a years study leave in 2017, and I am grateful to the University of Warwick for its support of my research. Thanks to Liza Thompson and Frankie Mace, my editors at Bloomsbury Press, for their patience and unwavering support. Finally, thanks are due to my colleagues at Warwick for their support and friendship, especially Miguel Beistegui and Stephen Houlgate, to my Warwick students past and present, and last, but not least, to my family for their tremendous love.