Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind

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Manuel Dries
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, Sep 10, 2018 - Philosophy - 360 pages

Nietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind presents 16 essays from analytic and continental perspectives. Appealing to both international communities of scholars, the volume seeks to deepen the appreciation of Nietzsche’s contribution to our understanding of consciousness and the mind. Over the past decades, a variety of disciplines have engaged with Nietzsche’s thought, including anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, to name just a few. His rich and perspicacious treatment of consciousness, mind, and body cannot be reduced to any single discipline, and has the potential to speak to many. And, as several contributors make clear, Nietzsche’s investigations into consciousness and the embodied mind are integral to his wider ethical concerns.

This volume contains contributions by international experts such as Christa Davis Acampora (Emory University), Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University), João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University), Manuel Dries (The Open University; Oxford University), Christian J. Emden (Rice University), Maria Cristina Fornari (University of Salento), Anthony K. Jensen (Providence College), Helmut Heit (Tongji University), Charlie Huenemann (Utah State University), Vanessa Lemm (Flinders University), Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University), Mattia Riccardi (University of Porto), Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen (New York University and EGS), and Benedetta Zavatta (CNRS).

 

Contents

1 Introduction to Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind
1
Embodied Cognition and Eliminative Materialism
17
3 Early Nietzsche on History Embodiment and Value
49
Nietzsche and Paul Churchlands Philosophy of Mind
71
Consciousness and Freedom of the Will
93
Another Look at Nietzschean Freedom
113
Mind Metaphysics and Will to Power
145
8 On the Place of Consciousness Within the Will to Power
163
Towards Naturalism
217
Nietzsche and Philosophical Naturalism
235
Ethics and Life
261
14 Nietzsche and the Perspective of Life
273
Redlichkeit and Embodied Wisdom
289
16 When Wisdom Assumes Bodily Form
309
Index
329
Notes on contributors
349

Consciousness Language and Metaphor
183
Nietzsche on Tropes as Embodied Schemata
195

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Manuel Dries, The Open University | Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

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