Nietzsche and Friendship

In Nietzsche and Friendship, Willow Verkerk provides a new and provocative account of Nietzsche's philosophy which identifies him as an agonistic thinker concerned with the topics of love and friendship. She argues that Nietzsche's challenges to the received principles of friendship from Aristotle to Kant offer resources for reinvigorating our thinking about friendship today. Through an examination of his free spirit texts, Human, All Too Human, Daybreak and The Gay Science together with Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Beyond Good and Evil, Verkerk unlocks key aspects of Nietzsche's thinking on friendship, love, 'woman', the self, self-overcoming, virtue, and character. She questions Nietzsche's misogyny, but also considers the emancipatory potential of his writing by brining him into dialogue with postmodern, feminist, and transgender thinkers. This book revives interest in the ethical, therapeutic, and political dimensions of Nietzsche's philosophy.

Author: Willow Verkerk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 03/19/2020
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9781350177178
ISBN10: 1350177172
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Philosophy | Metaphysics

About the Author
Willow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Kingston University London, UK and member of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP).