Understanding Nietzscheanism / Ashley Woodward

Cover Page
Half Title page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Nietzsche and Nietzscheanism
How to read this book
Nietzsche's life
Nietzsche's philosophy
Diagnosis of nihilism
Radicalization of nihilism
Morality
Truth
Overcoming of nihilism
The will to power
The eternal return
The Übermensch
The advent of Nietzscheanism
Nietzscheanism and existentialism
Before existentialism: life-philosophy and value-theory
The philosophy of existence
Jaspers: Nietzsche's philosophical activity
French existentialism: Sartre and Camus
Sartre
Camus
Kaufmann: Nietzsche with, and beyond, existentialism
Heidegger: Nietzsche as the last metaphysician
Summary
Life-philosophy
Value-theory
Existentialism
Nietzscheanism and poststructuralism
Nietzsche in the poststructuralist context
Structuralism
From structuralism to poststructuralism
Cartesianism, or the philosophy of the subject
Hegelianism
Marxism
Precursors: Bataille and Klossowski
Bataille: the will to chance
Klossowski: the vicious circle
Deleuze: the return of the different
Foucault: truth and genealogy
Derrida: Nietzsche's styles
French anti-Nietzscheanism
Summary of key points
The value of Nietzsche for the poststructuralists
Bataille's Nietzsche
Klossowski's Nietzsche
Deleuze's Nietzsche
Foucault's Nietzsche
Derrida's Nietzsche
French anti-Nietzscheanism
Nietzscheanism and politics
Nietzsche's political context
Nietzsche and National Socialism
Nietzsche's political philosophy
Nietzsche as unpolitical
Aristocratism
Socialism
Liberalism
Democracy
A “reconversion of politics”
The politics of the French Nietzsche
Nietzsche and critical theory
Summary of key points
Nietzsche's political context
Nietzsche and National Socialism
Nietzsche's political philosophy
The politics of the French Nietzsche
Nietzsche and critical theory
Nietzscheanism and feminism
Nietzsche on women
Women on Nietzsche
Early Nietzschean feminism
Lily Braun (1865–1916)
Helene Stöcker (1869–1943)
Hedwig Dohm (1831–1919)
Mary Wigman (1886–1973)
Isadora Duncan (1877–1927)
Kofman: Baubô, a female Dionysus
Irigaray: Nietzsche's marine lover
Oliver: womanizing Nietzsche
Summary of key points
Nietzsche on women
Women on Nietzsche
Early Nietzschean feminism
Kofman's Nietzsche
Irigaray's Nietzsche
Oliver's Nietzsche
Nietzscheanism and theology
Nietzsche as antichrist
Existential theology
Buber: “Nietzionism”
Barth: theology beyond religion
Tillich: God beyond God
Radical theology: “God is dead”
Weak theology
Vattimo: to believe that one believes
Recent developments
New Nietzschean theologies
Continental philosophy's “theological turn”
Summary of key points
Nietzsche's anti-Christianity
Existential theology
Radical (“death-of-God”) theology
Weak theology
Recent developments
Nietzscheanism and posthumanism
Transhumanism
Nietzsche as transhumanist
Ansell-Pearson on Nietzsche and the transhuman condition
Antihumanism
Foucault: the end of man
Summary of key points
Transhumanism
Sorgner on Nietzsche as precursor to transhumanism
Ansell-Pearson on Nietzsche and the transhuman condition
Antihumanism
Nietzscheanism, naturalism and science
Naturalism
Leiter's methodological naturalism
Truth and knowledge
Scepticism about science
Scepticism about causation
Hostility towards materialism
Scepticism about human nature and essence
Cox's interpretive naturalism
Epistemology naturalized
Ontology naturalized
Science
Nietzsche's philosophy of science
The significance of science for Nietzsche
Lange and materialism
Summary of key points
Naturalism
Conclusion
Chronologies
Questions for discussion and revision
one Nietzscheanism and existentialism
two Nietzscheanism and poststructuralism
three Nietzscheanism and politics
four Nietzscheanism and feminism
five Nietzscheanism and theology
six Nietzscheanism and posthumanism
seven Nietzscheanism, naturalism and science
Bibliography
Index

Nietzsche's critiques of traditional modes of thinking, valuing and living, as well as his radical proposals for new alternatives, have been vastly influential in a wide variety of areas, such that an understanding of his philosophy and its influence is important for grasping many aspects of contemporary thought and culture. However Nietzsche's thought is complex and elusive, and has been interpreted in many ways. Moreover, he has influenced starkly contrasting movements and schools of thought, from atheism to theology, from existentialism to poststructuralism, and from Nazism to feminism. This book charts Nietzsche's influence, both historically and thematically, across a variety of these contrasting disciplines and schools of interpretation. It provides both an accessible introduction to Nietzsche's thought and its impact and an overview of contemporary approaches to Nietzsche.