Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics

Maudemarie Clark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (1990) and co-author of The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil (2012).

• Abbreviations ; Introduction ; I. Ethics ; 1. Nietzsche's Immoralism and the Concept of Morality ; 2. On the Rejection of Morality: Williams' Debt to Nietzsche ; 3. Nietzsche's Contribution to Ethics ; 4. Nietzsche on Free Will and Responsibility ; 5. Nietzsche and Moral Objectivity (with David Dudrick) ; II. Politics ; 6. Bloom and Nietzsche ; 7. Nietzsche's Misogyny ; 8. On Queering Nietzsche ; 9. Nietzsche's Antidemocratic Rhetoric ; 10. The Good of Community (with Monique Wonderly) ; III. Metaphysics ; 11. Deconstructing The Birth of Tragedy ; 12. On Knowledge, Truth and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism ; 13. Nietzsche as Anti-metaphysician ; 14. Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology: Will to Power as Theory of the Soul (with David Dudrick) ; Bibliography ; Acknowledgments ; Index

Perhaps my favorite part of the book is Clark's careful reconsideration of Nietzsche's highest value -- the flourishing of community or the outstanding individual? Seasoned Nietzsche scholars will want to add this work to their libraries, but students of this philosopher will also find it a wonderful introduction to the current debates in Nietzsche scholarship. The book is accessible by specialist and lay reader alike.