Bloomsbury Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy

Product Description While Nietzsches works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsches Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsches work. The volume has three key lines of inquiry: Nietzsches ontology of conflict; Nietzsches conception of the agon; and Nietzsches warrior-philosophy. Under these three umbrellas is a collection of insightful and provocative essays considering, among other topics, Nietzsches understanding of resistance; his engagement with classical thinkers alongside his contemporaries, including Jacob Burckhardt; his views on language, metaphor and aphorism; and war, revolt and terror. In bringing together such topics, Conflict and Contest in Nietzsches Philosophy seeks to correct the one-sided tendencies within the existing literature to read simply 'hard' and 'soft' analyses of conflict. Written by scholars across the Anglophone and the European traditions, within and beyond philosophy, this collection emphasises the entire problematic of conflict in Nietzsches thought and its relation to his philosophical and literary practice. Review Exploring the ways in which an ontology of conflict informs Nietzsche's philosophy across the various domains of his critical interest has long been a desideratum. This volume does an excellent job in filling the gap!Beatrix Himmelmann, Professor of Philosophy, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NorwayThis is a most welcome volume with excellent articles on what is not only one of the most important topics of Nietzsche's philosophy, but moreover a decisive characteristic of his art of writing and the prevalent structural principle of his philosophical practice in all its domains and in the whole of its development.Paul van Tongeren, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Radboud University, The Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium About the Author Herman Siemens is Associate Professor of Modern Philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands.James Pearson has recently completed his PhD at Leiden University on Nietzsche's philosophy of conflict. He is currently working on the relation of 19th Century German philosophy to problems in contemporary political theory. His dissertation undertakes a critique of Nietzsche's conception of conflict in order to highlight the insufficiency of agonistic and militaristic interpretations of his thought. Aside from Nietzsche, he has published work on Wittgenstein, Hegel and Freud. James has also recently completed work on Wittgenstein as a visiting student at the University of Oxford. His recent publications include: "Language, Sujectivity and the Agon: A Comparative Study of Nietzsche and Lyotard†?, Logoi, 1:3 (2015); "On Catharsis, Conflict and the Coherence of Nietzsche's Agonism†?, Nietzsche-Studien, 45:1 (2016); "Wittgenstein on the Utility of Disagreement†?, Social Theory & Practice 41:4 (2016).