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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Introduction to my forthcoming book, MORAL PSYCHOLOGY WITH NIETZSCHE

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I hope the book will be out with OUP in fall 2018.  Here's the introduction, " Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology ,...
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Saturday, June 17, 2017

The Nachlass and "The Will to Power," once again

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Mazzino Montinari, Bernd Magnus, and (maybe?) R.J. Hollingdale all raised important doubts about the canonical status of the  Nachlass ma...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Book sales

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I 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...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Call for Papers for ISNS conference in London, March 2018

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Details here . Sorry for the dearth of posting as of late, I hope to have a bit more in the coming months.
Monday, December 19, 2016

Drochon in Nietzsche's politics

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This informative review by Andrew Huddleston (Birkbeck, London) brings out the crucial ambiguity between "politics" and "pol...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Most cited articles on Nietzsche in English (according to Google Scholar)

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Corrections welcome in the comments; I'll update the list periodically.  The bottom line is that articles on Nietzsche don't get cit...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Robert Holub's book on Nietzsche and anti-semitism

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I review  it at the  New Rambler .  The book gets some remarkable endorsements on the dustjacket from historians, though historians, I fear,...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Call for papers for inaugural ISNS cnoference--new deadline, January 15, 2016

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Details here .  We got about two dozen submissions right before the official deadline, but also several requests for more time.  Those who ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

"The Death of God and the Death of Morality"

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A new draft paper, here .
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Sinhababu on Clark's collected papers on Nietzsche's ethics and politics

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An informative and judicious review of Maudemarie Clark's papers by Neil Sinhababu (NUS).
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Huddleston on "Nietzsche's Meta-Axiology: Against the Sceptical Readings"

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This interesting paper appeared in British Journal for the History of Philosophy  22 (2014): 322-342.  The title is a play on my paper ...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Help sought: passages in which Nietzsche describes guilt as "useful" or "rational"

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Ken Gemes (Birkbeck) writes: I am trying to argue that while Nietzsche rejects what I call existential guilt/shame (that is guilt/sham...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

A review of Emden's "Nietzsche's Naturalism" (Cambridge, 2014)

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Here .
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

International Society for Nietzsche Studies

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I'm very pleased to announce an exciting new scholarly initiative, the International Society for Nietzsche Studies .  The inaugural c...
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Friday, June 5, 2015

BGE 37...and now updated with further thoughts on BGE 37

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Once again, for my own benefit (and those of any readers), I'd like to record some interesting insights that emerged from the Nietzsche ...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

BGE 9, 12 and 13: the Stoic mistake, and the doctrine that life is will to power

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I want to record some interesting insights that emerged from a fruitful discussion at our Nietzsche reading group on Friday; participating i...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Nietzsche in the Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy (forthcoming)

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I was very pleased that the editors chose to include a piece on Nietzsche in the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

More on Tom Stern's sneering review of The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche

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Tim Crane (Cambridge), the TLS philosophy editor, has put my original letter about the review and the reply by Stern's colleague Sebasti...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Where to go to study Nietzsche, 2014 edition

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The last version was 2012 , so it warrants some updating given changes in the interim (and also some of the useful comments on the last ver...
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Tom Stern's silly review of the Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche in the September 3 TLS

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London has long been a lively place for Nietzsche studies (with Ken Gemes and now Andrew Huddleston at Birkbeck, Sebastian Gardner and Mark...
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Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He works on a variety of topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. His current Nietzsche-related work concerns Nietzsche's theory of agency and its intersection with recent work in empirical psychology; Nietzsche's arguments for moral skepticism; and the role of naturalism in Nietzsche's philosophy.
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