Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life

Nietzsche advocates the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life¿s becoming on earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche.

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Vanessa Lemm Part I: Contesting Nietzsche's Naturalism 1. The Optics of Science, Art, and Life Tracy B. Strong 2. Nietzsche, Nature, and Life Affirmation Lawrence J. Hatab Part II: Evolution, Teleology, and the Laws of Nature 3. Is Evolution Blind? On Nietzsche's Reception of Darwin Virginia Cano 4. Nietzsche and the Nineteenth-Century Debate on Teleology Mariana A. Cruz 5. Nietzsche's Conception of "Necessity" and Its Relation to "Laws of Nature" Herman W. Siemens Part III: Justice and the Law of Life 6. Life and Justice in Nietzsche's Conception of History Vanessa Lemm 7. Life, Injustice, and Recurrence Scott Jenkins 8. Heeding the Law of Life: Receptivity, Submission, Hospitality Daniel D. Conway Part IV: The Becoming of a New Body and Sensibility 9. Toward the Body of the Overman Debra Bergoffen 10. Nietzsche's Synaesthetic Epistemology and the Restitution of the Holistic Human Rainer J. Hanshe 11. Nietzsche's Naturalist Morality of Breeding: A Critique of Eugenics as Taming Donovan Miyasaki 12. An "Other Way of Being": The Nietzschean "Animal": Contributions to the Question of Biopolitics Monica B. Cragnolini Part V: Purification and the Freedom of Death 13. Nietzsche and the Transformation of Death Eduardo Nasser 14. Becoming and Purification: Empedocles, Zarathustra's Ubermensch, and Lucian's Tyrant Babette Babich Part VI: The Becoming of the Soul: Nomadism and Self-Experiment 15. "Falling In Love with Becoming": Remarks on Nietzsche and Emerson Dieter Thoma 16. "We Are Experiments": Nietzsche on Morality and Authenticity Keith Ansell-Pearson 17. States and Nomads: Hegel's World and Nietzsche's Earth Gary Shapiro Notes List of Contributors Index