Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy [Paperback]

The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency, the 'will to nothingness', and the 'eternal recurrence', as well as to his search for a 'genealogical' understanding of morality.
These twelve essays by leading Nietzsche scholars ask such key questions as: Can we reconcile his rejection of free will with his positive invocations of the notion of free will? How does Nietzsche's celebration of freedom and free spirits sit with his claim that we all have an unchangeable fate? What is the relation between his concepts of freedom and self-overcoming?
The depth in which these and related issues are explored gives this volume its value, not only to those interested in Nietzsche, but to all who are concerned with the free will debate, ethics, theory of action, and the history of philosophy.

Introduction,Simon May
Note on texts, translations and references
1. Nietzsche, the Self, and the Disunity of Philosophical Reason,Sebastian Gardner
2. Nietzsche on Free Will, Autonomy and the Sovereign Individual,Ken Gemes
3. Autonomy, Affect and the Self in Nietzsche's Project of Genealogy.,Chris Janaway
4. How to Overcome Oneself: Nietzsche on Freedom,Robert Pippin
5. Nihilism and the Free Self,Simon May
6. Nietzsche's Theory of the Will,Brian Leiter
7. Nietzsche's Freedoms,John Richardson
8. Nietzschean Freedom,Peter Poellner
9. Nietzsche's Intentions: What the Sovereign Individual Promises,Aaron Ridley
10. Autonomy, Self-Respect and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency,David Owen
11. The Eternal Recurrence: A Freudian Look at What Nietzsche Took to be His Greatl!