Editorial Foreword

One writer has called Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality “the most important piece of moral philosophy since Kant.” Certainly, the critique of morality advanced in the Genealogy and other works continues to exert a profound influence today—not least in calling into question the very possibility of moral philosophy itself. The aim of this conference is to trace some of the lines of force of this influence. We are interested not only in exploring Nietzsche’s own thinking about ethics and morality throughout the entirety of his works but also in bringing his work into dialogue with other thinkers, both ancient and modern, and with contemporary concerns and debates.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Maudemarie Clark

(Colgate University)

Rosalyn Diprose

(University of New South Wales)

Brian Leiter

(University of Texas at Austin)

Henry Staten

(University of Washington)

Suggested themes:

• • Nietzsche’s critique of morality

• • Nietzsche and virtue

• • Genealogy and ethics

• • Immoralism

• • Value and revaluation

• • The body in Nietzsche’s ethical thought

• • Ascetic ideals

• • Nietzsche and the ethical tradition: Aristotle, Kant, Mill, Levinas, etc.

• • Good and evil in Nietzsche’s thought

• • Nietzsche and feminism

• • Solitude and community in Nietzsche’s ethical

• • Self-overcoming and the Übermensch

• • Nietzsche’s moral perfectionism

Proposals, together with an abstract of no more than 500 words, should be sent by 1 March 2004 by email to: S.Gillham@sussex.ac.uk Copy to F.Hyde-Thompson@sussex.ac.uk Or by mail to: FNS CONFERENCE, Felicity Hyde-Thomson, Arts B259, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QW, UK. Further details about the conference will appear on the FNS website www.fns.org.uk