Nietzsche as Phenomenologist - Paperback

by Christine Daigle (Author)

Christine Daigle explores Nietzsche's phenomenological method, a 'wild phenomenology', to elucidate his understanding of the human being as an intentional embodied consciousness, as a being-in-the-world and as a being-with-others. Establishing this phenomenological conception of the human allows Daigle to revisit the Nietzschean notions of free spirit and the Overhuman and how they express the ethical and cultural-political flourishing Nietzsche envisions for human beings.

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A controversial interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy as phenomenological that radically revises his ethical and political views Christine Daigle explores Nietzsche's phenomenological method, a 'wild phenomenology', to elucidate his understanding of the human being as an intentional embodied consciousness, as a being-in-the-world and as a being-with-others. Establishing this phenomenological conception of the human allows her to revisit the Nietzschean notions of free spirit and the Overhuman and how they express the ethical and cultural-political flourishing Nietzsche envisions for human beings. Daigle shows that reading Nietzsche as a wild phenomenologist entails a reinterpretation of his views on ethics and politics, specifically of the notions of free spirit, Overhumanity, and authentic flourishing, in the individual and socio-cultural sense. This daring reinterpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy resolves inconsistencies in scholarship and offers a thought-provoking take on his ethical and political views. Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, Canada. Cover image: (c) Barbara Melich, Watercolor Painting Cover design: riverdesignbooks.com [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-8784-9 Barcode

Author Biography

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, Canada. She is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge, Critical Thinkers Series, 2009), co-editor of Nietzsche and Phenomenology: Power, Life, Subjectivity (Indiana University Press, 2013) and Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence (Indiana University Press, 2009). She is editor of Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics (McGill/Queen's University Press, 2006) and author of Le Nihilisme est-il un humanisme? Étude sur Nietzsche et Sartre (Presses de l'Université Laval, 2005). She has also authored and co-authored many articles on Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir, posthumanism and environmental (post)humanities.