Jurist Elliot. Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. — 370 p. — ISBN10: 026260048X; ISBN13: 978-0262600484 — (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)Are Hegel and Nietzsche philosophical opposites? Can twentieth-century Continental philosophers be categorized as either Hegelians or Nietzscheans? In this book Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity. Jurist examines Hegel's and Nietzsche's claim that philosophy and culture are linked and explicates the various meanings of "culture" in their work — in particular, the contrast both thinkers draw between ancient and modern culture. He evaluates their positions on the failure of modern culture and on the need to develop conceptions of satisfied agency. It is Jurist's original contribution to focus on the psychological sensibility that informs the project of both philosophers. Writing in an admirably clear style, he traces the ongoing legacy of Hegel's and Nietzsche's thought in Adorno, Habermas, Honneth, Jessica Benjamin, Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, and Butler.Philosophy and CultureThe Culture of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Culture 43
Ancient Greek Culture 69
Modern CultureCulture and AgencyOn the Concept of Agency
Recognition and Agency in Hegel
Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit (I)
Recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit (II)
Hegelian Agency
Nietzsche’s Ambivalence toward Agency
The Will to Power and Agency in Nietzsche
Self and Other in Nietzsche
Nietzschean AgencyEpilogue