Overview

While Nietzsche’s works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche’s work. The volume has three key lines of inquiry: Nietzsche’s ontology of conflict; Nietzsche’s conception of the agon; and Nietzsche’s warrior-philosophy. Under these three umbrellas is a collection of insightful and provocative essays considering, among other topics, Nietzsche’s understanding of resistance; his engagement with classical thinkers alongside his contemporaries, including Jacob Burckhardt; his views on language, metaphor and aphorism; and war, revolt and terror. In bringing together such topics, Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche’s Philosophy seeks to correct the one-sided tendencies within the existing literature to read simply 'hard' and 'soft' analyses of conflict. Written by scholars across the Anglophone and the European traditions, within and beyond philosophy, this collection emphasises the entire problematic of conflict in Nietzsche’s thought and its relation to his philosophical and literary practice.

Full Product Details

Author:   Herman Siemens ,  Dr James Pearson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781350163836

ISBN 10:   135016383
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   28 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations and references for Nietzsche and Kant Translations of Nietzsche’s and Kant’s writings Introduction, Herman Siemens and James Pearson Part I. Nietzsche’s ontology of conflict 1. Nietzsche on Productive Resistance, Herman Siemens (Leiden University, The Netherlands) 2. Unity in Strife: Nietzsche, Heraclitus and Schopenhauer’, James Pearson (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Part II. Conflict and Culture: Nietzsche’s Agon and the Greeks 3. ‘Competition and Democracy in Burckhardt and Nietzsche’, Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford, UK) 4. ‘Competitive Ethos and Cultural Dynamic. The principle of Agonism in Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche’, Enrico Müller (University of Bonn, Germany) 5. ‘Amor Agonis: Conflict and Love in Nietzsche and Homer’, Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University, USA) 6. ‘Agonistic Communities: Love, War, and Spheres of Activity’, Christa Acampora (Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA) Part III: Ethos and Conflict: Nietzsche’s Warriors and Warrior-philosophers 7. ‘Nietzsche on the Pleasure of the Agon and Enticements to War’, Michael McNeal (Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA) 8. ‘“Aidos”, The Warrior-Pathos of Nietzsche’s Noble Philosopher’, Florian Häubli (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) 9. ‘You Will the Eternal Recurrence of War and Peace’ (GS 285), Isabelle Wienand (University of Basel, Switzerland) 10. ‘Philosophy as Terrorism. The Notion of “Attentat”’, Guillaume Métayer (École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France) Part IV: Conflict and Contestation in Language, Rhetoric and Style 11. Agon and Language in Nietzsche’s Early Writings on Rhetoric’, Nicolas Lema Habash (University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, USA) 12. Hyperbole and Conflict in the Slave Revolt in Morality, Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University, the Netherlands) 13. ‘Why War Imagery? Loving Life as an “Experiment der Erkennende” in Die fröhliche Wissenschaft’, Jonathan Agins (Northwestern University, USA) 14. The Aphorism as the Site of Conflict in Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Hohl, Alexandra Sattler (Leiden University, the Netherlands) Bibliography Index

Reviews

This is a most welcome volume with excellent articles on what is not only one of the most important topics of Nietzsche's philosophy, but moreover a decisive characteristic of his art of writing and the prevalent structural principle of his philosophical practice in all its domains and in the whole of its development. * Paul van Tongeren, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Radboud University, The Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium * Exploring the ways in which an ontology of conflict informs Nietzsche's philosophy across the various domains of his critical interest has long been a desideratum. This volume does an excellent job in filling the gap! * Beatrix Himmelmann, Professor of Philosophy, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway *

This is a most welcome volume with excellent articles on what is not only one of the most important topics of Nietzsche’s philosophy, but moreover a decisive characteristic of his art of writing and the prevalent structural principle of his philosophical practice in all its domains and in the whole of its development. * Paul van Tongeren, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Radboud University, The Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium * Exploring the ways in which an ontology of conflict informs Nietzsche’s philosophy across the various domains of his critical interest has long been a desideratum. This volume does an excellent job in filling the gap! * Beatrix Himmelmann, Professor of Philosophy, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway *

Author Information

Herman Siemens is Associate Professor of Modern Philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands. James Pearson has recently completed his PhD at Leiden University on Nietzsche’s philosophy of conflict.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions