I am grateful to Steven Cahn for suggesting I consider the project, to Eve DeVaro for her reception to the idea, and, especially, to Tessa Fallon and Emily Ross for assistance with a variety of technical questions and tasks. Frank Kirkland made possible some administrative assistance during various stages of manuscript preparation, and Nathan Metzger provided early research assistance and collection of materials that proved very helpful. Special thanks are owed to Ben Abelson, Brian Crowley, Adele Sarli, and Catherine Schoeder, who read most if not all of the nearly one hundred articles and book chapters that were considered for possible inclusion in the book. My weekly discussions with them were always informative and interesting. Brian Crowley and David Pereplyotchik graciously aided with the preparation of the index. Persons too numerous to name generously discussed the book’s contents and arrangement with me over the past year, most notably Keith Ansell Pearson. Several contributors took additional time to edit their essays for publication here. I am particularly grateful for the assistance of Keith Ansell Pearson, Babette E. Babich, Dan Conway, Ken Gemes, Paul Loeb, Mark Migotti, David Owen, Alan Schrift, Gary Shapiro, and Tracy B. Strong. Finally, I wish to thank my family for patiently listening to my nearly daily recounting of both thrilling insights and complaints about permissions editors. To those not responsible for the latter, I extend my sincere gratitude.
All of the material presented in this volume has been edited. In many cases, previously published pieces were edited and/or revised by the authors. In the acknowledgements below, I indicate whether contributions were excerpted and edited and/ or revised by the author. Contents not listed below are now published for the first time.
“Nietzsche, Re-evaluation, and the Turn to Genealogy,” David Owen. Edited by the author after its original publication in European Journal of Philosophy 11:3 (2003): 249–72. Reprinted with permission of Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.
“The Genealogy of Genealogy: Interpretation in Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation and in On the Genealogy of Morals,” Alexander Nehamas. Excerpted from Literary Theory and Philosophy, edited by Richard Freadman and Lloyd Reinhardt (London: Macmillan, 1991), 269–83. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
“Nietzsche’s Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy,” Eric Blotidel. Excerpted from Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker, edited by Y. Yovel (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1986), 136–46. Excerpt reprinted with permission of Springer.
“Nietzsche and the Re-evaluation of Values,” Aaron Ridley. Edited by the author after its original publication in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105 (2005), 171–91. Reprinted by courtesy of the Editor of the Aristotelian Society, copyright 2005.
“Slave Morality, Socrates, and the Bushmen: A Critical Introduction to On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay I” Mark Migotti. Revised and excerpted by the author after its publication in Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 58:4 (December 1998): 745–80.
“Lightning and Flash, Agent and Deed (GM 1:6–17),” Robert B. Pippin in Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogie der Moral, edited by Otfried Höffse (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004), 47–63. Reprinted with permission of the author.
“On Sovereignty and Overhumanity: Why It Matters How We Read Nietzsche’s Genealogy 11:2,” Christa Davis Acampora. Revised by the author from its original publication in International Studies in Philosophy 36:3 (Fall 2004): 127–45.
“Finding the Übermensch in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality,” Paul S. Loeb. Excerpted and revised by the author from its original publication in Journal of Nietzsche Studies 30 (Autumn 2005): 70–101. Reprinted with permission of the Pennsylvania State University Press.
“Nihilism as Will to Nothingness,” Wolfgang Müller-Lauter. In Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and Contradictions of His Philosophy, written by Wolfgang Muller-Lauter and translated by David J. Parent (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999), 41-49. Reprinted with permission of the University of Illinois Press.
“The Entwinement of Myth and Enlightenment,” Jürgen Habermas. Excerpted from The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, written by Jürgen Habermas and translated by Frederick Lawrence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987), 120–30. Excerpt published here with the permission of the author, MIT Press, and Polity Press.
“Translating, Repeating, Naming: Foucault, Derrida, and the Genealogy of Morals,” Gary Shapiro. Excerpted by the author from its original publication in Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Con, edited by Clayton Koelb (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press), 39–55. Reprinted with permission of SUNY Press.
“Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Genealogical Critique of Psychoanalysis: Between Church and State,” Alan D. Schrift. Edited and revised by the author after its original publication as “Between Church and State: Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Critique of Psychoanalysis” in International Studies in Philosophy 24:2 (Summer 1992): 41–52. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher.
“Nietzsche’s Genealogy: Of Beauty and Community,” Salim Kemal in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 21:3 (October 1990): 234–49. Reprinted with the permission of the journal editor.
“Nietzsche and the Jews: The Structure of an Ambivalence,” Yirmiyahu Yovel in Nietzsche and Jewish Culture, edited by Jacob Golumb (New York: Routledge, 1997), 117–34. Reprinted with permission of Routledge.
“Nietzschean Virtue Ethics,” Christine Swanton in Virtue Ethics: Old and New, edited by Steven M. Gardiner (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), 179–92. Reprinted with permission of the author and Cornell University Press.
“How We Became What We Are: Tracking the ‘Beasts of Prey,’” Daniel Conway. Revised by the author from its original publication in A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal, edited by Christa Davis Acampora and Ralph R. Acampora (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004), 156–77. Published with permission of the author and publisher.