Christian J. Emden

Nietzsche's Naturalism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781107685086
• ISBN-10: 1107685087
• Artikelnr.: 56522203

Autorenporträt

Christian J. Emden is Professor of German Intellectual History and Political Thought at Rice University, Houston. He is the author of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History (2008), and Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body (2005), and recently co-edited Beyond Habermas: Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere (2012), and Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Varieties of Philosophical Naturalism: 1. Introduction
2. The neo-Kantian stance
3. Nietzsche's 'anti-Darwinism'?
4. Psychology, experiment, and scientific practice
5. Three kinds of naturalism
Part II. Evolution and the Limits of Teleology: 6. Introduction
7. Problems with purpose
8. The politics of progress
9. Naturalizing Kant
10. Genealogy and path dependence
Part III. Genealogy, Nature, and Normativity: 11. Introduction
12. 'Darwinism's' metaphysical mistake
13. Living things and the will to power
14. Toward a natural history of normativity
15. 'Naturalism in morality'
Bibliography
Index.