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Homo Natura

Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

AvVanessa Lemm

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Nietzsche coins the enigmatic term homo natura to capture his understanding of the human being as a creature of nature and tasks philosophy with the renaturalisation of humanity. Following Foucault’s critique of the human sciences, Vanessa Lemm discusses the reception of Nietzsche’s naturalism in philosophical anthropology, psychoanalysis and gender studies. She offers an original reading of homo natura that brings back the ancient Greek idea of nature and sexuality as creative chaos and of the philosophical life as outspoken and embodied truth, perhaps best exemplified by the Cynics’ embrace of social and cultural transformation.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-03-12
Mått135 x 190 x 13 mm
Vikt250 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieIncitements
Antal sidor216
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474466721

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Vanessa Lemm is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Greenwich. She is an internationally recognised expert on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and has published widely on Nietzsche, biopolitics and contemporary political philosophy. She is the author of Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life (Fordham University Press, 2014), Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (Fordham University Press, 2009) and Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (EUP, forthcoming).

In Homo Natura Vanessa Lemm delves into Nietzsche's enigmatic, and often misunderstood, exhoration "to place the human back among the animals." With rigourous scholarship and original analysis, Lemm brings us to an understanding of what "naturalism" this is: not one advancing a biological reductionism. To the contrary, it finds in nature a principle of creativity and generativity that carries a surplus of life over any existing order, so that in returning to nature the human can exceed itself. Among its many merits, Lemm's reinterpretation of the body in Nietzsche's posthumanism offers a provocative reading of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the most radical aspects of his thinking. Homo Natura is a key text for those interested in what Nietzsche's philosophy can offer for contemporary feminism and Anthropocene thought.