Bernd Magnus and Kathleen M. Higgins - The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

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Cambridge University Press 1996

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CONTRIBUTORS

ERNST BEHLER, Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, is the author of Confrontations: Derrida, Heidegger, Nietzsche (1991) and coauthor (with Aldo Venturelli) of Friedrich Nietzsche (1994). His recent publications include Frhromantik (1992) and German Romantic Literary Theory (1994). He is the editor of the in-progress The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche.

KATHLEEN MARIE HIGGINS is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Nietzsches Zarathustra, The Music of Our Lives, and coeditor (with Robert C. Solomon) of Reading Nietzsche, The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love, and From Africa to Zen, among other books and articles.

R. J. HOLLINGDALE has translated most of Nietzsches published works, and books by many other German authors, classic and contemporary; and he has published a substantial study, Nietzsche, as well as his biography, Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy. He is honorary president of the British Nietzsche Society.

BERND MAGNUS, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of California, Riverside, was the founding Executive Director (with Walter Kaufmann) of the North American Nietzsche Society. Among his books are Nietzsches Existential Imperative, and (with Stanley Stewart and Jean-Pierre Mileur) Nietzsches Case: Philosophy as/and Literature, as well as books on Heidegger, Derrida, and Marx.

ALEXANDER NEHAMAS is Carpenter Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Princeton University, where he teaches philosophy and comparative literature and chairs the Council on the Humanities. He is the author of Nietzsche: Life as Literature, cotranslator of Platos Symposium and Phaedrus, and the author of a forthcoming book on Socrates and philosophy as the art of living.

GRAHAM PARKES studied philosophy and psychology at Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley, and now teaches at the University of Hawaii. He is the editor of and contributor to Heidegger and Asian Thought, Nietzsche and Asian Thought, and the author of Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsches Psychology.

ROBERT B. PIPPIN is Professor of Social Thought and Philosophy, and Chair of the Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago. His books include