ISBN:
1350047341
,
9781350047341
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 189 Seiten
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Miner, Robert C., 1970 - [Rezension von: Verkerk, Willow, 19XX-, Nietzsche and friendship] 2022
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Ferraro, Gianfranco Nietzsche e a filosofia como maneira de viver a amizade 2020
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Verkerk, Willow, 19XX - Nietzsche and friendship
Keywords:
Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900
;
Freundschaft
Abstract:
In "Nietzsche and friendship", Willow Verkerk provides a new and provocative account of Nietzsche's philosophy which identifies him as an agonistic thinker concerned with the topics of love and friendship. She argues that Nietzsche's challenges to the received principles of friendship from Aristotle to Kant offer resources for reinvigorating our thinking about friendship today. Through an examination of his free spirit texts, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak and The Gay Science together with Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, Verkerk unlocks key aspects of Nietzsche's thinking on friendship, love, `woman', the self, self-overcoming, virtue, and character. She questions Nietzsche's misogyny, but also considers the emancipatory potential of his writing by brining him into dialogue with postmodern, feminist, and transgender thinkers. This book revives interest in the ethical, therapeutic, and political dimensions of Nietzsche's philosophy.
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