Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity / / ed. by João Constâncio, Maria João Mayer Branco, Bartholomew Ryan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ansell-Pearson, Keith,; Branco, Maria João Mayer,; Brinkmann, Christopher,; Campioni, Giuliano,; Constâncio, João,; Faustino, Marta,; Fornari, Maria Cristina,; Gardner, Sebastian,; Gemes, Ken,; Gori, Pietro,; Jensen, Anthony,; Katsafanas, Paul,; Leiter, Brian,; Loukidelis, Nikolaos,; Miguens, Sofia,; Patourel, Imogen Le,; Pippin, Robert,; Riccardi, Mattia,; Richardson, John,; Ryan, Bartholomew,; Siemens, Herman,; Sooväli, Jaanus,; Souladié, Yannick,; Sousa, Luís de,; Stegmaier, Werner,; Stellino, Paolo,; Wienand, Isabelle,; Wollenberg, David,; Zavatta, Benedetta,
• HerausgeberIn: Constâncio, João,; Mayer Branco, Maria João,; Ryan, Bartholomew,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Nietzsche Today , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (709 p.)

Nietzsche's critique of the modern subject is often presented as a radical break with modern philosophy and associated with the so-called ‘death of the subject’ in 20th century philosophy. But Nietzsche claimed to be a ‘psychologist’ who was trying to open up the path for ‘new versions and soph...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• References, Citations, and Abbreviations
• Introduction to Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity
• Part I: Tradition and Context
• 1. Writing from a First-Person Perspective: Nietzsche’s Use of the Cartesian Model
• 2. Power, Affect, Knowledge: Nietzsche on Spinoza
• 3. Leibnizian Ideas in Nietzsche’s Philosophy: On Force, Monads, Perspectivism, and the Subject
• 4. Kant and Nietzsche on Self-Knowledge
• 5. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer on the ‘Self’ and the ‘Subject’
• 6 Psychology without a Soul, Philosophy without an I
• 7. Helmholtz, Lange, and Unconscious Symbols of the Self
• 8. Nietzscheand“the French Psychologists”: Stendhal, Taine, Ribot, Bourget
• 9. Social Ties and the Emergence of the Individual: Nietzsche and the English Perspective
• 10. “Know Yourself” and “Become What You Are”
• Part II: The Crisis of the Subject
• 11. Nietzsche on Decentered Subjectivity or, the Existential Crisis of the Modern Subject
• 12. The Plurality of the Subject in Nietzsche and Kierkegaard: Confronting Nihilism with Masks, Faith and Amor Fati
• 13. Nietzsche vs. Heidegger on the Self: Which I Am I?
• 14. Nietzsche and Freud: The ‘I’ and Its Drives
• 15. Nietzsche, Deleuze: Desubjectification and Will to Power
• 16. Questions of the Subject in Nietzsche and Foucault: A Reading of Dawn
• 17. Gapping the Subject: Nietzsche and Derrida
• 18. Questioning Introspection: Nietzsche and Wittgenstein on “The Peculiar Grammar of the Word ‘I’”
• 19. Subjects as Temporal Clues to Orientation: Nietzsche and Luhmann on Subjectivity
• 20. Three Senses of Selfless Consciousness: Nietzsche and Dennett on Mind, Language and Body
• Part III: Current Debates–From Embodiment and Consciousness to Agency
• 21. Nietzsche on the Embodiment of Mind and Self
• 22. Self-Knowledge, Genealogy, Evolution
• 23. Moralities Are a Sign-Language of the Affects
• 24. Nietzsche on Consciousness, Unity, and the Self
• 25. Nietzsche’s Socio-Physiology of the Self
• 26. The Expressivist Nietzsche
• Complete Bibliography
• List of Contributors/Affiliations
• Index