Contesting Nietzsche

Christa Davis Acampora

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Chicago University Press
03 April 2013

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy.

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche’s crucial notion of the agon. Analyzing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organized core areas of Nietzsche’s philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power. By focusing so intensely on this particular guiding interest, she offers an exciting, original vantage from which to view this iconic thinker: Contesting Nietzsche. Though existence—viewed through the lens of Nietzsche’s agon—is fraught with struggle, Acampora illuminates what Nietzsche recognized as the agon’s generative benefits. It imbues the human experience with significance, meaning, and value. Analyzing Nietzsche’s elaborations of agonism—his remarks on types of contests, qualities of contestants, and the conditions in which either may thrive or deteriorate—she demonstrates how much the agon shaped his philosophical projects and critical assessments of others. The agon led him from one set of concerns to the next, from aesthetics to metaphysics to ethics to psychology, via Homer, Socrates, Saint Paul, and Wagner. In showing how one obsession catalyzed so many diverse interests, Contesting Nietzsche sheds fundamentally new light on some of this philosopher’s most difficult and paradoxical ideas.

By: Christa Davis Acampora
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 25mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9780226923901
ISBN 10: 0226923908
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 03 April 2013
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christa Davis Acampora is associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Reviews for Contesting Nietzsche

Contesting Nietzsche is one of the finest pieces of Nietzsche scholarship to appear in many years. It both offers a comprehensive interpretation of the key texts in Nietzsche's oeuvre and contributes significant insights to some of the key topics in Nietzsche scholarship, including his naturalism, account of agency, approach to science, and possible contribution to thinking about democracy. (Alan D. Schrift, Grinnell College)