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The Anthropocene, and the concurrent awareness that life develops on planetary scales of time and our species is dependent on a habitable planet, seems to call for major revisions in our ethical and political views such as to register how thoroughly we are shaped by nature, that is, biology and physics. At the same time, among the most disputed questions in public and private life are those related to our gender, sexual, and racial differences and identities.

This volume asks about the relevance of Nietzsche’s thought for contemporary debates on conceptions of nature, ecological movements, and political activism. This volume also explores how Nietzsche’s writings foster cultural-aesthetic approaches to flora, fauna and non-living matter, anticipations of “naturecultures” as well as contemporary debates in Animal, Plant and Posthuman studies. As a thinker of nature, Nietzsche advocates for a re-naturalisation of the human being. This book invites to consider how Nietzsche’s task has been understood as an invitation to approach embodiment as an occasion for the critique of power, for dismantling hierarchical binarism and open subjectivity to practices of care of self.

This book is the first to give a comprehensive overview of and critically engage with Nietzsche's lyrical legacy of the 1850s and 60s. In addition, Müller presents a sample edition of manuscript notebook Mp I 22 from 1858, and historically contextualizes and analyzes it. The volume therefore makes a substantial contribution to examining Nietzsche within the context of literary, philosophical, and cultural history.

Can Nietzsche's media criticism of the contemporary mass press also be made productive for dealing with modern media and digital communication? The contributions address, among other things, digitality and media, truth, mass media, social media, the hoped-for as well as dreaded "Rule of Algorithms," Perspectives of Acceleration, New Dimensions of the Arts, and New Approaches to Thinking in Philosophy, Psychology, and Art Theory.

Nietzsche's legacy holds a special fascination, and its status remains highly controversial to this day. At the same time, however, there is widespread consensus that it is indispensable for understanding Nietzsche. In any case, the legacy poses special challenges to interpretation and editing. The authors discuss concrete individual cases and, in general, the appropriate handling of Nietzsche's posthumous writings.

Nietzsche did not formulate a political theory. He criticized state institutions just as relentlessly as the political ideologies of his time. This critical distance, however, also enabled him to pose fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of the political, questions that remain relevant to this day. He reevaluated the political from the standpoints of psychology and morality, cultural enhancement and human flourishing.

For decades, the relationship between Nietzsche and French existentialism has been contentious. Some see Nietzsche as a pioneer of French existentialism, while others try to separate him from this tradition. This volume brings together key contributions written by experts from the fields of philosophy, psychology, and literary studies, who shed new light on this problem area.

This anthology aims to explore the meaning, entanglement and reception of the concepts of the 'barbaric' and the 'race' in Friedrich Nietzsche's thinking from his early work around 1870 until the end of 1880s. The contributions refer to both the historical and the actual dimension of this complex topic.

This collection combines a systematic treatment of Nietzsche as a reader with case studies investigating specific readings. These focus on the marginal notes in the books in his personal library, while also addressing excerpts from his works. Source and reception research is strategically combined with context-oriented interpretation.

The Reformation of 1517 is often considered the onset of modernity. However, Nietzsche’s critique of the revitalization of Christianity by Luther and the Counterreformation suggests a different perspective. What can we learn from Nietzsche’s engagement with the Reformation about him, about Christianity, and about our own times? International scholars address these and others questions.

Nietzsche is regarded as a “poet-philosopher”, whose work resists the conventional distinction between literature and philosophy. For this reason, it is difficult to locate consistent philosophical positions in his work. In an exemplary series of essays, the volume explores Nietzsche’s relationship with literature and literature’s relationship with Nietzsche, opening up new pathways for understanding his thought.

Among the most far-reaching effects of Nietzsche’s legacy was its influence on the thinkers associated with the Konservative Revolution, the national conservative movement that formed in Germany after World War I. This book is the most comprehensive study to date of Nietzsche’s importance for early-20^th-century German conservatives and provides a sweeping overview of their literary, philosophical, and political reception of his work.

While researchers have mostly focused on Nietzsche the thinker, this volume turns its attention to Nietzsche the poet. It examines a substantial corpus of poetry and poetic fragments that have been largely neglected by researchers to date. Linguistic, aesthetic, and poetological reflections offer additional insight into Nietzsche’s by no means uncomplicated relationship to art and poetry.