Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy

Ken Gemes came to Birkbeck in 2000 having taught for ten years at Yale University. In 2007 he took a Readership at Southampton University. His interests range from technical issues concerning logical content and confirmation to Nietzsche's account of how philosophy is merely the last manifestation of the ascetic ideal.Simon May is College Research Fellow in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research interests are in German philosophy, especially Nietzsche and Heidegger, and in ethics and the emotions. He is author of Nietzsche's Ethics and His War on 'Morality' (OUP, 1999), a collection of his own aphorisms entitled The Pocket Philosopher: A Handbook of Aphorisms (Metro Books, 1999, second edition 2005, also published in Italian, Spanish and Dutch), Love: A Philosophical Investigation (Yale University Press, forthcoming), and other books.

• Introduction ; Note on texts, translations and references ; 1. Nietzsche, the Self, and the Disunity of Philosophical Reason ; 2. Nietzsche on Free Will, Autonomy and the Sovereign Individual ; 3. Autonomy, Affect and the Self in Nietzsche's Project of Genealogy. ; 4. How to Overcome Oneself: Nietzsche on Freedom ; 5. Nihilism and the Free Self ; 6. Nietzsche's Theory of the Will ; 7. Nietzsche's Freedoms ; 8. Nietzschean Freedom ; 9. Nietzsche's Intentions: What the Sovereign Individual Promises ; 10. Autonomy, Self-Respect and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency ; 11. The Eternal Recurrence: A Freudian Look at What Nietzsche Took to be His Greatest Insight ; 12. Nietzsche on the Will: An Analysis of BGE 19 ; Index