586 Pages
by Routledge

586 Pages
by Routledge

586 Pages
by Routledge

Nietzsche worked to comprehend the nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspired and guided by the question of personal sovereignty and how through his writings sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described. White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age must therefore come to understand if we are ever to secure a genuinely meaningful... Read more
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Reading Nietzsche 1. On the Value of the Individual 2. The Genealogy of Sovereignty: St. Paul, Kant, Schopenhauer 3. The Individual and the Birth of Tragedy 4. Against Idealism 5. Zarathustra and the Teaching of Sovereignty 6. The Return of the Master 7. Ecce Homo, or the Revaluation of Values 8. Nietzsche and the Philosophy of the Future Afterword Notes Index

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Richard White