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Infinite Autonomy:

The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
  • ISBN-13: 9780271050768
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jeffrey Church
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Local release date: 15/02/2012
  • Format: Paperback 296 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy of mind [HPM]
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Argues that G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche share a concept of individuality that combines autonomy and community, but that they develop this concept in opposite directions, leaving an irreconcilable tension between political means of individual fulfilllment.


Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Three Concepts of Individuality

1.1 The Natural Individual

1.2 The Formal Individual

1.3 Rousseau and the Historical Individual

2 Hegel’s Defense of Individuality

2.1 The Distinctively Human Subject and the Good Life

2.2 The Autonomy of the Laboring Subject

2.3 The “Infinite Worth” of Individual Character

3 Hegel on the Ethical Individual

3.1 The Origin of Community

3.2 The Nature of Community

3.3 Politics as the Highest Ethical Community

4 Hegel on the Modern Political Individual

4.1 The Ancient Versus the Modern State

4.2 Expansion of Desire in Modern Commercial Society

4.3 Estates and Corporations as Ethical-Political Communities

5 Nietzsche’s Defense of Individuality

5.1 The Problem of Individuation in Nietzsche

5.2 The Will to Power and the Development of the Distinctively Human

5.3 Individuality as a Narrative Unity

6 Nietzsche on the Redemptive Individual

6.1 The Tension in the Bow and Human Community

6.2 Silenus’ Truth

6.3 The Aesthetic Justification of Existence

6.4 The Individual’s Redemption

6.5 Eros and Eris of Community

7 Nietzsche on the Antipolitical Individual

7.1 Historical Development of State and Culture in Modernity

7.2 On the Nature and Function of the Modern State

7.3 The Possibilities of Modern Culture

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Church offers a highly knowledgeable, thoroughly documented, and indeed exhaustive exploration of the theme of individuality in the work of both Hegel and Nietzsche, along with some side attention to the contributions of Rousseau and Kant.”

—Donald J. Maletz, Review of Politics

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