tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43735562390883887902024-02-19T02:44:36.753-06:00Brian Leiter's Nietzsche BlogThinking out loud about Nietzsche's philosophyBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comBlogger190125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-20583588130234703622023-09-11T15:47:00.004-06:002023-11-20T17:01:29.135-06:00Where to go for PhD studies focused on Nietzsche, 2023 editionThe recommendations are premised on three assumptions about what is
needed to do good PhD work on Nietzsche: (1) a strong, general
philosophical education; (2) one or more serious Nietzsche scholars to supervise the
work; and (3) a philosophical environment in which one can get a solid
grounding in the history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy,
Kant, and post-Kantian German Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-25822609265900404792022-10-05T11:35:00.002-06:002022-10-05T11:35:22.544-06:00NANS conference both live and on Zoom this weekend Paul Katsafanas (Boston University) shared this information, which may interest some readers:<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-69817094965272852022022-09-04T16:41:00.008-06:002022-09-05T08:04:44.726-06:00"Nietzsche on Morality" in JapanI owe to Yuma Oto the translation of the 2nd edition of NOM into Japanese. Mr. Oto writes:
1. The publication of the Japanese translation has made the Japanese academic philosophy magazine Philcul feature "Analytic Nietzsche Studies" with articles by three Nietzsche scholars (Tsunafumi Takeuchi [Ryukoku University], Kota Umeda [Sophia University], Kota Taniyama [Kyorin University]) and notably Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-5672642586231830282021-11-22T16:17:00.006-06:002021-11-23T15:19:40.418-06:00Sommer on the Genealogy and naturalismI've started reading Andreas Urs Sommer's learned (but not very philosophical) commentary on the Genealogy (Kommentar zu Nietzsches Zur Genealogie der Moral [Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019]). He writes regarding my naturalist reading: "If this concept ["naturalism"] means that one avoids supernatural explanations and also that the mind is taken to be something natural, it is of courseBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-65967438037190435892021-11-06T09:49:00.002-06:002021-11-06T09:49:41.433-06:00Most cited Anglophone books on Nietzsche according to Google Scholar(These are scholarly monographs on Nietzsche published originally in English. Citations are rounded to the nearest 10.)<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-63504585658890787712021-10-14T16:58:00.013-06:002021-10-18T13:09:39.418-06:00Paul Katsafanas' misrepresentations in a recent review essay discussing my "Moral Psychology with Nietzsche"Having written a quite critical review of Paul Kastafanas's book on The Nietzschean Self (2016), and knowing that Paul and I have significant differences about how to read Nietzsche, I wasn't expecting him to like my Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (hereafter Leiter 2019). However, I was surprised by his superficial engagement with the arguments, and the wholly inaccurate and irresponsible Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-89424133491168054822021-10-12T16:40:00.007-06:002021-10-13T16:05:20.572-06:00Where to go for postgraduate Nietzsche studies, 2021The recommendations are premised on three assumptions about what is needed to do good PhD work on Nietzsche: (1) a strong, general philosophical education; (2) good Nietzsche scholars to supervise the work; and (3) a philosophical environment in which one can get a solid grounding in the history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy, Kant, and post-Kantian German philosophy. With Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-16643721628487218562020-12-07T18:10:00.004-06:002020-12-07T18:10:54.045-06:00Discussing "Moral Psychology with Nietzsche" online at Trinity College Dublin Details here.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-16701646738568401992020-10-29T10:35:00.000-06:002020-10-29T10:35:13.490-06:00Where to go for postgraduate study of Nietzsche, 2020 edition The recommendations
are premised on three assumptions about what is needed to do good PhD
work on Nietzsche: (1) a strong, general philosophical education; (2)
good Nietzsche scholars to supervise the work; and (3) a philosophical
environment in which one can get a solid grounding in the history of
philosophy, especially ancient philosophy, Kant, and post-Kantian German
Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-60203688590983122482020-02-13T15:45:00.004-06:002020-02-13T17:05:42.055-06:00Jonathan Mitchell on Stern's "New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche"Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews has just published this illuminating, and wholly accurate, review by Jonathan Mitchell (Mahchester) of the New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche we noted a few months ago. As Dr. Mitchell aptly observes at the start:
Given that it is billed as a companion, one would expect a balanced
approach to debates in Nietzsche studies, alongside informative
Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-70250650713239365672020-02-02T10:39:00.001-06:002020-02-02T10:39:16.799-06:00ISNS Call for Papers: Oxford 2019 (June 30-July 1)More information here: http://www.internationalnietzsche.org/call-for-papers.html
Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-30949276083512449522019-10-18T06:09:00.000-06:002020-01-01T15:20:31.137-06:00The New Cambridge Companion to NietzscheI recently received a copy of The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche edited by Tom Stern. The last Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, edited by Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins, appeared in 1996, and did not have much impact: although it included many then-prominent Anglophone Nietzsche scholars, none of the essays played much role in subsequent scholarship.
The striking Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-74642514296636635872019-09-03T11:14:00.000-06:002019-09-03T14:36:22.295-06:00Where to go to study Nietzsche, 2019 edition (REVISED 3 September 2019)The recommendations
are premised on three assumptions about what is needed to do good PhD
work on Nietzsche: (1) a strong, general philosophical education; (2)
good Nietzsche scholars to supervise the work; and (3) a philosophical
environment in which one can get a solid grounding in the history of
philosophy, especially ancient philosophy, Kant, and post-Kantian German
philosophy.
Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-61286660798004797212018-06-21T09:57:00.001-06:002018-06-21T09:57:45.132-06:00'Nietzsche: The Truth is Terrible'Everything you need to know in just 2,500 words at the Times Literary Supplement. (This is not behind a paywall.)Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-61772325395126294182018-01-27T17:46:00.004-06:002018-01-27T17:46:54.709-06:00The decline of European Journal of Philosophy as a Nietzsche venueIn thinking about significant Nietzsche publications for my last post, I was struck that none of the papers in EJP in recent years was even on my list of tentative candidates. In the 1990s and early-to-mid-2000s, many excellent Nietzsche-related papers appeared, but there's been a marked decline in quality lately; a couple should never have passed peer review at a mediocre journal. Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-15003235944612951202018-01-15T10:03:00.000-06:002018-01-15T13:17:12.155-06:0010 books and/or articles related to Nietzsche you should have read in the last ten yearsSince it's early 2018, I will treat the benchmark as 2007, but here are the books and/or articles I got the most from, and that anyone doing work on Nietzsche should have read and thought about seriously during the last decade. These are in alphabetical order.
Jessica Berry, Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2011). I was not ultimately persuaded Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-7304925321783372822017-11-22T15:10:00.002-06:002017-11-22T15:10:46.429-06:00Introduction to my forthcoming book, MORAL PSYCHOLOGY WITH NIETZSCHE I hope the book will be out with OUP in fall 2018. Here's the introduction, "Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology," which gives an overview of the scope and aims of the volume.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-57035248678395532332017-06-17T16:45:00.002-06:002017-06-17T16:49:35.930-06:00The Nachlass and "The Will to Power," once again
Mazzino Montinari, Bernd Magnus, and (maybe?) R.J. Hollingdale all raised important doubts about the canonical status of the Nachlass material in the 1970s and 1980s. On the standard narrative, it appears Nietzsche wanted much of this
material destroyed, and it was only the intervention of others, independent of
Nietzsche, that resulted in the material beingBrian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-58133971478837368232017-05-11T14:08:00.002-06:002017-05-11T14:08:13.148-06:00Book salesI just got a very detailed report from Routledge about sales of Nietzsche on Morality as of the end of 2016. The first edition (2002) has sold not quite 6,500 copies in all formats (though over 6,000 were in paperback unsurprisingly, the rest hardback or e-books). The second edition, which just came out in 2015, has sold almost 1,100 copies in all formats (with the most, about Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-58204915123007215532017-04-29T15:08:00.005-06:002017-04-29T15:08:56.832-06:00Call for Papers for ISNS conference in London, March 2018Details here.
Sorry for the dearth of posting as of late, I hope to have a bit more in the coming months.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-3554890040375429302016-12-19T19:28:00.002-06:002016-12-19T19:29:39.872-06:00Drochon in Nietzsche's politicsThis informative review by Andrew Huddleston (Birkbeck, London) brings out the crucial ambiguity between "politics" and "political philosophy" in Drochon's recent book. Nietzsche has a lot of views about political questions, he does not have, however, a political philosophy, and for philosophical reasons!Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-17420445294734291652016-03-10T19:40:00.003-06:002016-03-10T19:40:20.479-06:00Most cited articles on Nietzsche in English (according to Google Scholar)Corrections welcome in the comments; I'll update the list periodically. The bottom line is that articles on Nietzsche don't get cited a lot, certainly not as much as books!
1. Bernard Williams, "Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology" (1993), 99 citations
2. Raymond Geuss, "Nietzsche and Genealogy" (1994), 80 citations
3. Brian Leiter, "The Paradox of Fatalism and Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-53959493486796405822015-12-21T08:26:00.002-06:002015-12-21T08:28:14.065-06:00Robert Holub's book on Nietzsche and anti-semitismI review it at the New Rambler. The book gets some remarkable endorsements on the dustjacket from historians, though historians, I fear, who didn't know much about Nietzsche and didn't read the book too carefully.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-39001145688109764682015-12-16T08:03:00.004-06:002015-12-16T08:03:59.860-06:00Call for papers for inaugural ISNS cnoference--new deadline, January 15, 2016Details here. We got about two dozen submissions right before the official deadline, but also several requests for more time. Those who submitted may resubmit. No refereeing will take place until after January 15.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4373556239088388790.post-46407620842981029362015-09-16T15:38:00.003-06:002015-09-16T15:38:49.592-06:00"The Death of God and the Death of Morality"A new draft paper, here.Brian Leiterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749548844483929392noreply@blogger.com1