Ken Gemes - Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy

NIETZSCHE ON FREEDOM AND AUTONOMY

Edited by
KEN GEMES AND SIMON MAY

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Nietzsche on freedom and autonomy / edited by Ken Gemes and Simon May.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780199231560
1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 18441900. 2. Liberty. 3. Autonomy (Philosophy)
I. Gemes, Ken. II. May, Simon.
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We are greatly indebted to Professor Tim Crane and the Institute of Philosophy of the University of London for providing funding and the venue for a conference, Nietzsche on Self, Agency, and Autonomy, held on April 79, 2006, in which most of the authors here participated and where earlier drafts of their papers were presented. We thank Chris Sykes for invaluable assistance in compiling the index and ensuring consistency in formatting and referencing. Finally we are grateful to Peter Momtchiloff, Philosophy Editor at OUP, for his encouragement, advice, andnot leastpatience.

SM, KG

Sebastian Gardner

Ken Gemes

Christopher Janaway

Robert Pippin

Simon May

Brian Leiter

John Richardson

Peter Poellner

Aaron Ridley

David Owen

Mathias Risse

Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick

All authors in this volume refer to Nietzsches works by the same abbreviations, listed below. The particular English translations used by each author are given at the end of his or her chapter, as is the secondary literature to which the author refers.

References to secondary literature are made in the Harvard Style.

MAUDEMARIE CLARK is George Carleton Jr. Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. She is author of Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (1990), co-editor (with Brian Leiter) of Nietzsches Daybreak (1997), and co-translator and coeditor (with Alan Swensen) of Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morality (1998). She is currently finishing a book with David Dudrick tentatively titled Nietzsches Magnificent Tension of the Spirit: An Introduction to Beyond Good and Evil.

DAVID DUDRICK is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colgate University. He is the author of Foucault, Butler, and the Body, in the European Journal of Philosophy (2005), and of The Shameful Wisdom, forthcoming in International Studies in Philosophy. He is also co-author, with Maudemarie Clark, of a number of papers on Nietzsche. He and Clark are finishing a book tentatively titled Nietzsches Magnificent Tension of the Spirit: An Introduction to Beyond Good and Evil.

SEBASTIAN GARDNER is Professor of Philosophy at University College London. His interests are in post-Kantian philosophy, in particular early German idealism and aesthetics. His publications include Irrationality and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (1993), Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason (1998), and chapters and articles in various books and journals, including the European Journal of Philosophy, the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

KEN GEAMS is a Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and at Southampton University. His published research is in general philosophy of science and on aspects of Nietzsches philosophy and appears in various journals including the