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Nehamas, Alexander : Nietzsche: Life as Literature

_Philosophy and Phenomenological Research_ 48 (3):567-569. 1988 (direct link)

Nehamas, Alexander : XII-The Good of Friendship

_Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society_ 110 (3pt3):267-294. 2010 (direct link)

Nehamas, Alexander : Nietzsche, intention, action

_European Journal of Philosophy_. forthcoming Nietzsche sometimes writes as if we are not in control—at least not in conscious control—of our actions. He seems to suggest that what we actually do is independent of our intentions. It turns out, though, that his understanding of both intention and action differs radically from most contemporary treatments of the issue. In particular, he denies that our actions are caused by their intentions, whose role is hermeneutical in a sense that this essay develops. How then is responsibility to be assigned, since its moral variety, at least, depends, on several views, on the intention with which an action is performed? Nietzsche, of course, is not interested in making attributions of moral responsibility. Still, his views on the relationship between an individual action, its intention, other actions by its agent, and the agent's character, as this essay presents them, provide a reasonable account of action generally and a different, broader account of responsibility for oneself.(direct link)

Nehamas, Alexander : Reviews

_Noûs_ 12 (4):475. 1978 (direct link)

Nehamas, Alexander ; Scarry, Elaine & Hickey, Dave : The Return of the Beautiful: Morality, Pleasure, and the Value of UncertaintyOn Beauty and being JustAir GuitarThe Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty

_Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism_ 58 (4):393. 2000 (direct link)

Nehamas, Alexander : Ronald Hayman, "Nietzsche: A Critical Life"

_Journal of the History of Philosophy_ 20 (1):98. 1982

Nehamas, Alexander : Nietzsche: Life as Literature

_Philosophy and Rhetoric_ 21 (3):240-243. 1988

Nehamas, Alexander : Nietzsche: Life as Literature

_Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism_ 45 (2):199-200. 1986

Nehamas, Alexander : Wisdom Without Knowledge: Socrates Today

_Philosophical Inquiry_ 26 (4):1-7. 2004

Nehamas, Alexander : The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought

_International Studies in Philosophy_ 35 (4):209-210. 2003