Publication subTitle :Thinking Freedom
Publication series :Modern European Philosophy
Author: Will Dudley;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication year: 2002
E-ISBN: 9781316902288
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521812504
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780521812504
Subject: B516 German philosophy
Keyword: 世界哲学
Language: ENG
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Description
This study explores the theme of freedom in the philosophy of Hegel and Nietzsche. This study explores the theme of freedom in the philosophy of Hegel and Nietzsche. In bringing Hegel and Nietzsche together into a conversation, Will Dudley has developed some original interpretations that will be of considerable importance to students of these philosophers, and to political theorists and historians of ideas. This study explores the theme of freedom in the philosophy of Hegel and Nietzsche. In bringing Hegel and Nietzsche together into a conversation, Will Dudley has developed some original interpretations that will be of considerable importance to students of these philosophers, and to political theorists and historians of ideas. This challenging study explores the theme of freedom in the philosophy of Hegel and Nietzsche. In the first half Will Dudley sets Hegel's Philosophy of Right within a larger systematic account and deploys the Logic to interpret it. The author shows that freedom involves not only the establishment of certain social and political institutions but also the practice of philosophy itself. In the second half, he reveals how Nietzsche's discussions of decadence, nobility and tragedy map on to an analysis of freedom that critiques heteronomous choice and Kantian autonomy, and ultimately issues in a positive conception of liberation. In boldly bringing Hegel and Nietzsche together into a conversation, something that is rarely attempted, Will Dudley has develo