Willow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada and a researcher with the Gendered Mimesis Project at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Nietzsche valued friendship, and this pioneering study shows how Nietzsche’s own discussion of friendship is absolutely crucial for understanding his philosophy. Through a very careful and perceptive reading of Nietzsche’s texts, Verkerk argues that Nietzsche’s ideas about friendship are empowering – and in this way she makes a strong case for the relevance of Nietzsche’s thought in contemporary debates concerning friendship, gender relations, and love.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Nietzsche’s Literary Gift of Friendship: Reading Nietzsche as a Joyful, Agonistic, and Bestowing Friend Chapter 2: Nietzsche’s Re-evaluation of Friendship Chapter 3: On Becoming What One Is: Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Concept of the Self Chapter 4: Nietzsche and Aristotle on Character, Virtue, and the Limits of Friendship Chapter 5: Women, Love, and the Gendered Troubles of Friendship in Nietzsche and Irigaray Chapter 6: Abducting Woman? An Agonistic Reception of Nietzsche’s (and Derrida’s) Gifts Conclusion: Further Re-evaluations Notes References Index

Willow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada and a researcher with the Gendered Mimesis Project at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Nietzsche valued friendship, and this pioneering study shows how Nietzsche’s own discussion of friendship is absolutely crucial for understanding his philosophy. Through a very careful and perceptive reading of Nietzsche’s texts, Verkerk argues that Nietzsche’s ideas about friendship are empowering – and in this way she makes a strong case for the relevance of Nietzsche’s thought in contemporary debates concerning friendship, gender relations, and love.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Nietzsche’s Literary Gift of Friendship: Reading Nietzsche as a Joyful, Agonistic, and Bestowing Friend Chapter 2: Nietzsche’s Re-evaluation of Friendship Chapter 3: On Becoming What One Is: Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Concept of the Self Chapter 4: Nietzsche and Aristotle on Character, Virtue, and the Limits of Friendship Chapter 5: Women, Love, and the Gendered Troubles of Friendship in Nietzsche and Irigaray Chapter 6: Abducting Woman? An Agonistic Reception of Nietzsche’s (and Derrida’s) Gifts Conclusion: Further Re-evaluations Notes References Index

Willow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada and a researcher with the Gendered Mimesis Project at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Nietzsche valued friendship, and this pioneering study shows how Nietzsche’s own discussion of friendship is absolutely crucial for understanding his philosophy. Through a very careful and perceptive reading of Nietzsche’s texts, Verkerk argues that Nietzsche’s ideas about friendship are empowering – and in this way she makes a strong case for the relevance of Nietzsche’s thought in contemporary debates concerning friendship, gender relations, and love.

• Introduction Chapter 1: Nietzsche’s Literary Gift of Friendship: Reading Nietzsche as a Joyful, Agonistic, and Bestowing Friend Chapter 2: Nietzsche’s Re-evaluation of Friendship Chapter 3: On Becoming What One Is: Nietzsche’s Therapeutic Concept of the Self Chapter 4: Nietzsche and Aristotle on Character, Virtue, and the Limits of Friendship Chapter 5: Women, Love, and the Gendered Troubles of Friendship in Nietzsche and Irigaray Chapter 6: Abducting Woman? An Agonistic Reception of Nietzsche’s (and Derrida’s) Gifts Conclusion: Further Re-evaluations Notes References Index