Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity

Edited by: João Constâncio , Maria João Mayer Branco and Bartholomew Ryan

Volume 5 in the series Nietzsche Today

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110408201

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Nietzsche's critique of the modern subject is often presented as a radical break with modern philosophy and associated with the so-called ‘death of the subject’ in 20th century philosophy. But Nietzsche claimed to be a ‘psychologist’ who was trying to open up the path for ‘new versions and sophistications of the soul hypothesis.’ Although there is no doubt that Nietzsche gave expression to a fundamental crisis of the modern conception of subjectivity (both from a theoretical and from a practical-existential perspective), it is open to debate whether he wanted to abandon the very idea of subjectivity or only to pose the problem of subjectivity in new terms.
The volume includes 26 articles by top Nietzsche scholars. The chapters in Part I, “Tradition and Context”, deal with the relationship between Nietzsche's views on subjectivity and modern philosophy, as well as with the late 19th century context in which his thought emerged; Part II, “The Crisis of the Subject”, examines the impact of Nietzsche's critique of the subject on 20th century philosophy, from Freud to Heidegger to Dennett, but also in such authors as Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, or Luhmann; Part III, “Current Debates - From Embodiment and Consciousness to Agency”, shows that the way in which Nietzsche engaged with such themes as the self, agency, consciousness, embodiment and self-knowledge makes his thought highly relevant for philosophy today, especially for philosophy of mind and ethics.

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João Constâncio, Maria João Mayer Branco, and Bartholomew Ryan, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
References, Citations, and Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction to Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity João Constâncio, Maria João Mayer Branco and Bartholomew Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Tradition and Context
1. Writing from a First-Person Perspective: Nietzsche’s Use of the Cartesian Model Isabelle Wienand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
2. Power, Affect, Knowledge: Nietzsche on Spinoza David Wollenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
3. Leibnizian Ideas in Nietzsche’s Philosophy: On Force, Monads, Perspectivism, and the Subject Nikolaos Loukidelis and Christopher Brinkmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
4. Kant and Nietzsche on Self-Knowledge Paul Katsafanas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
5. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer on the ‘Self’ and the ‘Subject’ Luís de Sousa and Marta Faustino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
6 Psychology without a Soul, Philosophy without an I Nietzsche and 19th Century Psychophysics (Fechner, Lange, Mach) Pietro Gori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
7. Helmholtz, Lange, and Unconscious Symbols of the Self Anthony Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
8. Nietzscheand“the French Psychologists”: Stendhal, Taine, Ribot, Bourget Giuliano Campioni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
9. Social Ties and the Emergence of the Individual: Nietzsche and the English Perspective Maria Cristina Fornari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
10. “Know Yourself” and “Become What You Are” Benedetta Zavatta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Part II: The Crisis of the Subject
11. Nietzsche on Decentered Subjectivity or, the Existential Crisis of the Modern Subject João Constâncio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
12. The Plurality of the Subject in Nietzsche and Kierkegaard: Confronting Nihilism with Masks, Faith and Amor Fati Bartholomew Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
13. Nietzsche vs. Heidegger on the Self: Which I Am I? John Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
14. Nietzsche and Freud: The ‘I’ and Its Drives Sebastian Gardner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
15. Nietzsche, Deleuze: Desubjectification and Will to Power Yannick Souladié Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	394
16. Questions of the Subject in Nietzsche and Foucault: A Reading of Dawn Keith Ansell-Pearson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
17. Gapping the Subject: Nietzsche and Derrida Jaanus Sooväli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	436
18. Questioning Introspection: Nietzsche and Wittgenstein on “The Peculiar Grammar of the Word ‘I’” Maria João Mayer Branco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	454
19. Subjects as Temporal Clues to Orientation: Nietzsche and Luhmann on Subjectivity Werner Stegmaier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
20. Three Senses of Selfless Consciousness: Nietzsche and Dennett on Mind, Language and Body Sofia Miguens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	511
Part III: Current Debates–From Embodiment and Consciousness to Agency
21. Nietzsche on the Embodiment of Mind and Self Mattia Riccardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
22. Self-Knowledge, Genealogy, Evolution Paolo Stellino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	550
23. Moralities Are a Sign-Language of the Affects Brian Leiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	574
24. Nietzsche on Consciousness, Unity, and the Self Ken Gemes and Imogen Le Patourel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	597
25. Nietzsche’s Socio-Physiology of the Self Herman Siemens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
26. The Expressivist Nietzsche Robert Pippin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	654
Complete Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	668
List of Contributors/Affiliations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	695
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	697

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 709
Keywords: Embodiment; self; agency; consciousness

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Published: October 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110408201

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Published: October 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110408126

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Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110554700