Nietzsche’s Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy Volume I : Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics

"Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics explores how Nietzsche criticizes, adopts, and reformulates Kant's critique of metaphysics and his transcendental idealism. Thing in itself and phenomenon, space and time, intuition and thought, the I and self-consciousness, concepts and judgements, categories and schemata, teleological judgement: building on established and recent literature on these topics in both thinkers, this volume asks whether Nietzsche can malgré lui be considered a Kantian of sorts. Nietzsche's intensive engagement with early neo-Kantians (Lange, Liebmann, Fischer, von Helmholtz) and other contemporaries of his, largely ignored in the Anglophone literature, is also addressed, raising the question whether Nietzsche's positions on Kant's theoretical philosophy are best understood as historically embedded in the often rather loose relation they had to the First Critique. These and other questions are taken up in Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, which in different ways tackles the complexities of Nietzsche's relation to Kant's theoretical philosophy and its reception in nineteenth-century philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors Editors: Contributors: Acknowledgements Abbreviations and References for Nietzsche and Kant Abbreviations for Nietzsche’s Writings Abbreviations or ‘Siglen’ for Nietzsche’s Writings in German Abbreviations for Nietzsche’s Writings in English Abbreviations of Kant’s Writings with Indicationof the Corresponding AA Volume References Nietzsche’s writings Kant’s writings Translations of Nietzsche’s and Kant’s Writings Nietzsche Kant Introduction 1. The young Nietzsche’s acquaintance with Kant and Kantianism 2. Nietzsche’s criticisms of Kant 3. Outline of the volume Notes References 1 Nietzsche, Transcendental Argument and the Subject 1. Introduction 2. Transcendental argument in Kant 3. Nietzsche against transcendental argument 4. Necessary perspectives Notes References 2 From Pure Reason to Historical Knowledge: Nietzsche’s (Virtual) Objections to Kant’s First Critique 1. Introduction 2. Reason is a natural and historical product 3. Reason is one and the same thing as language 4. The formation of concepts of empirical objects 5. Concluding remarks Notes References 3 The Thought of Becoming and the Place of Philosophy: Some Aspects of Nietzsche’s Reception and Criticism of Transcendental I 1. Introduction 2. Spir’s concept of identity and Nietzsche’s tropological model of cognition 3. Nietzsche’s Parmenides in the light of Spir’s ontology 4. Nietzsche, Spir and the reality of time 5. The origin of representation from the becoming 6. The temporality of representation and the intentionality of drives Notes References 4 The Consequences of Kant’s First Critique: Nietzsche on Truth and the Thing in Itself 1. Introduction 2. Nietzsche on Kant’s first Critique: from The Birth of Tragedy to Human, All Too Human 3. Nietzsche on Kant’s first Critique: from The Gay Science onwards 4. The thing in itself and the problem of truth 5. Conclusion Notes References 5 Nietzsche and the Thing in Itself 1. Introduction 2. Kant and the thing in itself 3. Nietzsche’s criticisms of the thing in itself Notes References 6 Nietzsche on Kant’s Distinction between Knowledge (Wissen) and Belief (Glaube) 1. Introduction 2. Kant’s realm of belief 3. Lange’s reshaping of Kant’s normative realm 4. Nietzsche’s early reaction 5. Nietzsche’s late reaction 6. Conclusions Notes References 7 On Teleological Judgement: A Debate between Kant and Nietzsche 1. Teleology vs. contingency 2. Purposiveness and self-design 3. On the meaning of human existence Notes References 8 ‘Resolute Reversals’: Kant’s and Nietzsche’s Orienting Decisions Concerning the Distinction between Reason and Nature 1. Nietzsche’s esteem of Kant for his ‘resolute’ critical ‘reversal’ of the distinction between reason and nature 2. Kant’s orienting technique for making distinctions in the Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason 3. Kant’s persistent uncritical presuppositions 4. Nietzsche’s ‘revolution of the way of thinking’ regarding the distinction between reason and nature: Pluralization and funct 5. Kant’s far-reaching critical premises: Pluralization and functionalization of reason for orientation II Notes References 9 The Kantian Roots of Nietzsche’s Will to Power 1. Introduction 2. Nietzsche’s appraisal of Kant 3. The will to power: An alternative to Kant’s synthesis 4. Objections and replies Notes References 10 ‘Kant: or cant as intelligible character’: Meaning and Function of the Type ‘Kant’ and his Philosophy in Twilight of the Id 1. Text and intertext 2. Philosophy as ‘symptomatology’: ‘Kant’ in Twilight of the Idols 3. ‘Reason’ in philosophy Notes References 11 Nietzsche, Kant and Self-Observation: Dealing with the Risk of ‘Landing in Anticyra’ 1. Kant on self-observation 2. Nietzsche on self-observation 2.1 Getting closer to Anticyra 3. Landing in Anticyra: A lucky shipwreck? Notes References Complete Bibliography Name Index Subject Index "Nietzsche has often been considered a thinker independent of the philosophy of his time and radically opposed to the concerns and concepts of modern and contemporary philosophy. But there is an increasing awareness of his sophisticated engagements with his contemporaries and of his philosophy's rich potential for debates with modern and contemporary thinkers. Nietzsche's Engagements with Kant and the Kantian Legacy explores a significant field for such engagements, Kant and Kantianism. Bringing together an international team of established Nietzsche-scholars who have done extensive work in Kant, contributors include both senior scholars and young, upcoming researchers from a broad range of countries and traditions. Working from the basis that Nietzsche is better understood as thinking 'with and against' Kant and the Kantian legacy, they examine Nietzsche's explicit and implicit treatments of Kant, Kantians, and Kantian concepts, as well as the philosophical issues that they raise for both Nietzschean and Kantian philosophy. Divided into three volumes, the focus is on specific areas and texts of Kant's philosophy: Nietzsche, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics; Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics; Nietzsche and Kant on Aesthetics and Anthropology . Each volume draws extensively on the flourishing recent literature from both analytic and continental traditions in English, German and other languages. By responding to scholarly interest in the critical relations between Nietzsche and Kant, this series of volumes presents the first systematic study of the pairing of two major European thinkers from the modern period."--Publisher's description