Nietzsche and the Problem of Sovereignty

From The Birth of Tragedy on, Nietzsche worked to comprehend thenature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was inspiredand guided by the question of personal "sovereignty" and howthrough his writings he sought to provoke the very sovereignty he described.White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our contemporary age musttherefore come to understand if we are ever to secure a genuinely meaningfuldirection for the future. Profoundly relevant to our era, Nietzsche'sphilosophy addresses a version of individuality that allows us to movebeyond the self-dispossession of mass society and the alternative of selfishindividualism--to fully understand how one becomes what one is.A volume in the International Nietzsche Studies series, edited by Richard Schacht