Nietzsche as Phenomenologist

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, Canada. She is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre (Routledge, Critical Thinkers Series, 2009), co-editor of Nietzsche and Phenomenology: Power, Life, Subjectivity (Indiana University Press, 2013) and Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence (Indiana University Press, 2009). She is editor of Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics (McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2006) and author of Le Nihilisme est-il un humanisme? Étude sur Nietzsche et Sartre (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2005). She has also authored and co-authored many articles on Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir, posthumanism and environmental (post)humanities.

Nietzsche as Phenomenologist offers a provocative reading of Nietzsche as a phenomenologist avant la lettre. Daigle makes a compelling case for a Nietzschean ‘wild phenomenology’ that anticipates Husserl’s philosophical framework and methodology. Her systematic reading challenges us to investigate consciousness and embodied subjectivity, ethics, and politics in Nietzsche through the lens of classical phenomenological concepts such as intentionality, being-in-the-world, and being-with-other. A refreshing addition to Nietzsche scholarship!

• Preface Introduction Nietzsche’s ‘Wild’ PhenomenologyNietzsche’s Phenomenological Notion of the SelfMulti-layered Embodied ConsciousnessBeing-in-the-world – Being-with-othersFettered and Free SpiritsBecoming Overhuman Conclusion: From the Ethical to the Political Bibliography