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Christa Davis Acampora is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her numerous publications include A Nietzschean Bestiary , co-edited with Ralph R. Acampora published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. She is Executive Editor of The Journal of Nietzsche Studies.
Part 1 Introduction: In the Beginning: Reading Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals from the Start
Part 2 Part I: On Genealogy
Chapter 3 1. A "Dionysian drama on the 'fate of the soul'": An Introduction to Reading On the Genealogy of Morality
Chapter 4 2. Nietzsche, Re-evaluation and the Turn to Genealogy
Chapter 5 3. The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals
Chapter 6 4. Nietzsche's Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy
Chapter 7 5. Nietzsche and the Re-evaluation of Values
Chapter 8 6. Genealogy, the Will to Power, and the Problem of a Past
Part 9 Part II: Reading the Genealogy : Focused analyses of parts and passages
Chapter 10 7. Slave morality, Socrates, and the Bushmen: A Reading of the First Essay of On the Genealogy of Morals
Chapter 11 8. Lightning and Flash, Agent and Deed
Chapter 12 9. On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche's Genealogy II:2
Chapter 13 10. Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Chapter 14 11. The Genealogy of Morals and Right Reading: On the Nietzschean Aphorism and the Art of the Polemic
Chapter 15 12. We Remain of Necessity Strangers to Ourselves: The key message of Nietzsche's Genealogy
Chapter 16 13. Nihilism as Will to Nothingness
Part 17 Part III: Critiquing Genealogy
Chapter 18 14. The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment: Re-reading the Dialectic of Enlightenment
Chapter 19 15. Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and The Genealogy of Morals
Chapter 20 16. Nietzsche, Deleuze and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and State
Part 21 Part IV: On Politics and Community
Chapter 22 17. Nietzsche's Genealogy: Of Beauty and Community
Chapter 23 18. Nietzsche and the Jews: The Structure of Ambivalence
Chapter 24 19. Nietzschean Viture Ethics
Chapter 25 How We Become What We Are: Tracking the "Beasts of Prey"
This volume is an excellent collection of essays. It offers the right mix of perspectives, topics, and settings that will help any reader of theGeneology, students and scholars alike, in navigating one of Nietzsche's most important and challenging texts. Highly recommended.
— Lawrence J. Hatab, Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Old Dominion University
This is an exceptionally strong collection, gathering together some of the most insightful commentary on Nietzsche's most important book, of leading scholars in North America, Europe and beyond over the last twenty years. This substantial new volume is a very welcome contribution to the literature and ought to occupy a prominent place on any list of recommended reading for students of Nietzsche's text.
— Duncan Large, University of Wales at Swansea
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals looms larger in the Nietzsche canon with each passing year. Something about this work speaks to the ethical predicament of modernity in a way that seems to be full of promise and is yet deeply unsettling and enigmatic; hence the continuing, and increasing discussion of this work by philosophers. Christa Acampora's collection brings together an impressive group of writers who have been at the forefront of contemporary debates on the Genealogy, and will for the near future be the standard work of reference on the topic.
— Henry Staten, professor of English, University of Washington