Andrew Huddleston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 987973 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Huddleston |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Huddleston |
| FIRMA | HUDDLESTON A |
| AFILIACIONES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5007-7215 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Nietzsche on Amor Fati
Amor fati – love of fate – is one of the formulations most often associated with Nietzsche. How, I ask in this paper, should we understand the relevant kind of love this amor fati involves, as against more familiar ideas of interpersonal love and love as historically understood in the philosophical tradition? The love we see with amor fati is not, as prominent readings would have it, about the supposed free bestowal of agape , nor the pursuit of …
Umwerthung in Action
The crowning project of Nietzsche’s career was to be an “Umwerthung aller Werthe,” typically translated as a “revaluation of all values.” But what would such a revaluation consist in? One answer current in the literature is that a revaluation of values is a principled philosophical reconsideration of certain regnant values, in light of some overarching value that serves as a standard. Power, it is in particular often claimed, is the centerpiece o…
Nietzsche on values
Values, and a critique of values, are at the center of Nietzsche's philosophical work. He famously proposes to launch a "revaluation" of values. But this raises a number of philosophical questions about the nature of values for Nietzsche, and how he proposes to critique them. I will begin by tracing Nietzsche's descriptive psychology of valuing. Then I will look to Nietzsche's sociology of values: what is it for a framework of values to be ascend…
Philosophy
Decadence is a perennial theme in philosophy. But tracing the arc of decline becomes an especially prominent focus of attention in European philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article explains and contrasts several “narratives of decadence” in the post-Kantian tradition. The article first lays out briefly the basics of G. W. F. Hegel’s optimistic view of progress and history as a foil and point of reference, then turns to e…
Ressentiment
Nietzsche famously discusses a psychological condition he calls ressentiment, a condition involving toxic, vengeful anger. I offer a free-standing theory in philosophical psychology of the familiar state aptly described with this term. In the process of developing my account, I chart the terrain around ressentiment and closely related and sometimes overlapping states (ordinary moral resentment, envy, vengefulness, anger, and the like). On the acc…
Being for Beauty
Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture
This article was presented in January 2020 to the North American Nietzsche Society at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting as part of a book symposium on Andrew Huddleston's Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture (2019). Here the author replies to critical commentaries by Kristin Gjesdal and Jacqueline Scott
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
Brian Leiter's Moral Psychology with Nietzsche draws together seven of his previous papers (one coauthored with Joshua Knobe), expands and updates them, and weaves them together into a unified naturalist line of interpretation. The fundamental positions largely remain the same. The reader already familiar with Leiter's work will thus not be in for major surprises, but will have much to learn from reading the new exegetical and philosophical detai…
Nietzsche's aesthetics
We find numerous discussions of art and aesthetics stretching from Nietzsche's first bookThe Birth of Tragedyto his final books of 1888. In what follows, I seek to give an overview of Nietzsche's views. I proceed in a roughly chronological fashion, but try to group key themes together insofar as possible
Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture
In Nietzsche’s first book The Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns. The standard story about Nietzsche’s philosophical development is that he soon becomes disillusioned with this project, and his mature philosophy undergoes a radical shift. Instead of reposing his hopes in a broader culture, he comes to occupy himself instead with the fate of a few great individuals, or, at the extreme, perhaps mainly with his…
Against ‘Egypticism’
One of the most familiar tasks for the philosopher is to try to understand a concept through defining it. This will involve identifying the non-trivial necessary and sufficient conditions that all and only instances of the concept satisfy. In one form or another, this philosophical project spans the more than two millennia from Socrates and Plato to the heart of a certain central form of analytic philosophy. In this chapter, I want to build on Ni…
Why (and How) We Read Nietzsche
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The…
Nietzsche on the health of the soul
Health (particularly of the soul [Seele]) is a central concept in Nietzsche’s work. Yet in the most philosophically sophisticated secondary literature on Nietzsche, there has been fairly little sustained treatment of just what Nietzschean health consists in. In this paper, I aim to provide an account of some of the central marks of this health: resilience, discipline, vitality, a certain positive condition of the will to power, a certain tendency…
Normativity and the Will to Power
In this article, I critically consider the Nietzschean version of constitutivism that Paul Katsafanas has recently developed. My focus, following Katsafanas's, is not on the exegetical issue of whether this constitutivism was indeed Nietzsche's own view. It is rather on the philosophical question of whether the view itself is tenable. Do actions have a constitutive aim, in the way that Katsafanas supposes? If so, what is that aim? From the putati…
What is Enshrined in Morality? Understanding the Grounds for Nietzsche’s Critique
It is a truism that Nietzsche is a critic of morality. But what does Nietzsche have against this institution of morality? I consider the prominent interpretation of Brian Leiter’s that Nietzsche takes morality to task for its bad effects in hampering the flourishing of great individuals and cultures. There are good reasons, I argue, to resist this reading as the best, and certainly as the exclusive, account of the grounds for Nietzsche’s criticis…
Nietzsche's Meta-axiology
In this paper, I treat the question of the meta-axiological standing of Nietzsche's own values, in the service of which he criticizes morality. Does Nietzsche, I ask, regard his perfectionistic valorization of human excellence and cultural flourishing over other ideals to have genuine evaluative standing, in the sense of being correct, or at least adequate to a matter-of-fact? My goal in this paper is modest, but important: it is not to attribute…
Consecration to Culture
Consecration to Culture":Nietzsche on Slavery and Human Dignity Andrew Huddleston (bio) "There are some who threw away their last worth [Werth]when they threw away their servitude [Dienstbarkeit]." -Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I, "On the Way of the Creator." 1. Introduction In the Infamous Opening Sections from Part IX of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche celebrates a strident kind of elitism and countenances, in however attenuated a form, the institut…
Hegel on Comedy
According to Hegel, art in its 'supreme task' is engaged in 'bringing to our minds and expressing the Divine, the deepest interests of mankind, and the most comprehensive truths of the spirit'. Raymond Geuss, in a highly illuminating paper, has connected Hegel's conception of art's supreme task with the project of theodicy. In this paper I explore Hegel's aesthetics of comedy through this theodicy-based framework Geuss has proposed, and I conside…
Scruton's Aesthetics
Journal Article Scruton’s Aesthetics Get access Scruton’s Aesthetics Andy Hamilton and Nick Zangwill (EDS) Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. pp. 344. £55 (hbk). Andrew Huddleston Andrew Huddleston Exeter College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 104–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayt019 Published: 08 June 2013
Understanding Responses to High School Exit Exams in Literacy
In this article, the author demonstrates how a Bourdieusian analysis of poetic transcriptions offers great potential for helping teachers and students to understand how they are responding to state policy mandates in schools. Specifically, the author uses Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital, and habitus to analyze two poetic transcriptions, “Fodder for Factories” and “Playing the Testing Game” to show how Nick, an ESOL teacher, and his students…
The Conversation Argument for Actual Intentionalism
Proponents of actual intentionalism hold that an author’s actual intentions should constrain the proper interpretation of his or her works. If, for example, we have good reason to think Proust intends his character Marcel to set out to write a different novel from In Search of Lost Time itself, then that is how we should interpret the text. After decades of being denigrated as the ‘intentional fallacy’, actual intentionalism has enjoyed a renaiss…
In Defense of Artistic Value
Journal Article In Defense of Artistic Value Get access Andrew Huddleston Andrew Huddleston Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 249, October 2012, Pages 705–714, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2012.00089.x Published: 03 September 2012
Nietzsche's Meta-axiology
In this paper, I treat the question of the meta-axiological standing of Nietzsche's own values, in the service of which he criticizes morality. Does Nietzsche, I ask, regard his perfectionistic valorization of human excellence and cultural flourishing over other ideals to have genuine evaluative standing, in the sense of being correct, or at least adequate to a matter-of-fact? My goal in this paper is modest, but important: it is not to attribute…
Hegel on Comedy
According to Hegel, art in its 'supreme task' is engaged in 'bringing to our minds and expressing the Divine, the deepest interests of mankind, and the most comprehensive truths of the spirit'. Raymond Geuss, in a highly illuminating paper, has connected Hegel's conception of art's supreme task with the project of theodicy. In this paper I explore Hegel's aesthetics of comedy through this theodicy-based framework Geuss has proposed, and I conside…
In Defense of Artistic Value
Journal Article In Defense of Artistic Value Get access Andrew Huddleston Andrew Huddleston Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 249, October 2012, Pages 705–714, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2012.00089.x Published: 03 September 2012
What is Enshrined in Morality? Understanding the Grounds for Nietzsche’s Critique
It is a truism that Nietzsche is a critic of morality. But what does Nietzsche have against this institution of morality? I consider the prominent interpretation of Brian Leiter’s that Nietzsche takes morality to task for its bad effects in hampering the flourishing of great individuals and cultures. There are good reasons, I argue, to resist this reading as the best, and certainly as the exclusive, account of the grounds for Nietzsche’s criticis…
Why (and How) We Read Nietzsche
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The…
Normativity and the Will to Power
In this article, I critically consider the Nietzschean version of constitutivism that Paul Katsafanas has recently developed. My focus, following Katsafanas's, is not on the exegetical issue of whether this constitutivism was indeed Nietzsche's own view. It is rather on the philosophical question of whether the view itself is tenable. Do actions have a constitutive aim, in the way that Katsafanas supposes? If so, what is that aim? From the putati…
Consecration to Culture
Consecration to Culture":Nietzsche on Slavery and Human Dignity Andrew Huddleston (bio) "There are some who threw away their last worth [Werth]when they threw away their servitude [Dienstbarkeit]." -Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I, "On the Way of the Creator." 1. Introduction In the Infamous Opening Sections from Part IX of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche celebrates a strident kind of elitism and countenances, in however attenuated a form, the institut…
Understanding Responses to High School Exit Exams in Literacy
In this article, the author demonstrates how a Bourdieusian analysis of poetic transcriptions offers great potential for helping teachers and students to understand how they are responding to state policy mandates in schools. Specifically, the author uses Bourdieu's concepts of field, capital, and habitus to analyze two poetic transcriptions, “Fodder for Factories” and “Playing the Testing Game” to show how Nick, an ESOL teacher, and his students…
The Conversation Argument for Actual Intentionalism
Proponents of actual intentionalism hold that an author’s actual intentions should constrain the proper interpretation of his or her works. If, for example, we have good reason to think Proust intends his character Marcel to set out to write a different novel from In Search of Lost Time itself, then that is how we should interpret the text. After decades of being denigrated as the ‘intentional fallacy’, actual intentionalism has enjoyed a renaiss…
In Defense of Artistic Value
Journal Article In Defense of Artistic Value Get access Andrew Huddleston Andrew Huddleston Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 62, Issue 249, October 2012, Pages 705–714, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2012.00089.x Published: 03 September 2012
Scruton's Aesthetics
Journal Article Scruton’s Aesthetics Get access Scruton’s Aesthetics Andy Hamilton and Nick Zangwill (EDS) Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. pp. 344. £55 (hbk). Andrew Huddleston Andrew Huddleston Exeter College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 54, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 104–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayt019 Published: 08 June 2013
Nietzsche's Meta-axiology
In this paper, I treat the question of the meta-axiological standing of Nietzsche's own values, in the service of which he criticizes morality. Does Nietzsche, I ask, regard his perfectionistic valorization of human excellence and cultural flourishing over other ideals to have genuine evaluative standing, in the sense of being correct, or at least adequate to a matter-of-fact? My goal in this paper is modest, but important: it is not to attribute…
Consecration to Culture
Consecration to Culture":Nietzsche on Slavery and Human Dignity Andrew Huddleston (bio) "There are some who threw away their last worth [Werth]when they threw away their servitude [Dienstbarkeit]." -Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I, "On the Way of the Creator." 1. Introduction In the Infamous Opening Sections from Part IX of Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche celebrates a strident kind of elitism and countenances, in however attenuated a form, the institut…
Hegel on Comedy
According to Hegel, art in its 'supreme task' is engaged in 'bringing to our minds and expressing the Divine, the deepest interests of mankind, and the most comprehensive truths of the spirit'. Raymond Geuss, in a highly illuminating paper, has connected Hegel's conception of art's supreme task with the project of theodicy. In this paper I explore Hegel's aesthetics of comedy through this theodicy-based framework Geuss has proposed, and I conside…
What is Enshrined in Morality? Understanding the Grounds for Nietzsche’s Critique
It is a truism that Nietzsche is a critic of morality. But what does Nietzsche have against this institution of morality? I consider the prominent interpretation of Brian Leiter’s that Nietzsche takes morality to task for its bad effects in hampering the flourishing of great individuals and cultures. There are good reasons, I argue, to resist this reading as the best, and certainly as the exclusive, account of the grounds for Nietzsche’s criticis…
Normativity and the Will to Power
In this article, I critically consider the Nietzschean version of constitutivism that Paul Katsafanas has recently developed. My focus, following Katsafanas's, is not on the exegetical issue of whether this constitutivism was indeed Nietzsche's own view. It is rather on the philosophical question of whether the view itself is tenable. Do actions have a constitutive aim, in the way that Katsafanas supposes? If so, what is that aim? From the putati…
Nietzsche on the health of the soul
Health (particularly of the soul [Seele]) is a central concept in Nietzsche’s work. Yet in the most philosophically sophisticated secondary literature on Nietzsche, there has been fairly little sustained treatment of just what Nietzschean health consists in. In this paper, I aim to provide an account of some of the central marks of this health: resilience, discipline, vitality, a certain positive condition of the will to power, a certain tendency…
Against ‘Egypticism’
One of the most familiar tasks for the philosopher is to try to understand a concept through defining it. This will involve identifying the non-trivial necessary and sufficient conditions that all and only instances of the concept satisfy. In one form or another, this philosophical project spans the more than two millennia from Socrates and Plato to the heart of a certain central form of analytic philosophy. In this chapter, I want to build on Ni…
Why (and How) We Read Nietzsche
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The…
Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture
In Nietzsche’s first book The Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns. The standard story about Nietzsche’s philosophical development is that he soon becomes disillusioned with this project, and his mature philosophy undergoes a radical shift. Instead of reposing his hopes in a broader culture, he comes to occupy himself instead with the fate of a few great individuals, or, at the extreme, perhaps mainly with his…
Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture
This article was presented in January 2020 to the North American Nietzsche Society at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting as part of a book symposium on Andrew Huddleston's Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture (2019). Here the author replies to critical commentaries by Kristin Gjesdal and Jacqueline Scott
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche
Brian Leiter's Moral Psychology with Nietzsche draws together seven of his previous papers (one coauthored with Joshua Knobe), expands and updates them, and weaves them together into a unified naturalist line of interpretation. The fundamental positions largely remain the same. The reader already familiar with Leiter's work will thus not be in for major surprises, but will have much to learn from reading the new exegetical and philosophical detai…
Nietzsche's aesthetics
We find numerous discussions of art and aesthetics stretching from Nietzsche's first bookThe Birth of Tragedyto his final books of 1888. In what follows, I seek to give an overview of Nietzsche's views. I proceed in a roughly chronological fashion, but try to group key themes together insofar as possible
Philosophy
Decadence is a perennial theme in philosophy. But tracing the arc of decline becomes an especially prominent focus of attention in European philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article explains and contrasts several “narratives of decadence” in the post-Kantian tradition. The article first lays out briefly the basics of G. W. F. Hegel’s optimistic view of progress and history as a foil and point of reference, then turns to e…
Ressentiment
Nietzsche famously discusses a psychological condition he calls ressentiment, a condition involving toxic, vengeful anger. I offer a free-standing theory in philosophical psychology of the familiar state aptly described with this term. In the process of developing my account, I chart the terrain around ressentiment and closely related and sometimes overlapping states (ordinary moral resentment, envy, vengefulness, anger, and the like). On the acc…
Being for Beauty
Nietzsche on values
Values, and a critique of values, are at the center of Nietzsche's philosophical work. He famously proposes to launch a "revaluation" of values. But this raises a number of philosophical questions about the nature of values for Nietzsche, and how he proposes to critique them. I will begin by tracing Nietzsche's descriptive psychology of valuing. Then I will look to Nietzsche's sociology of values: what is it for a framework of values to be ascend…
Nietzsche on Amor Fati
Amor fati – love of fate – is one of the formulations most often associated with Nietzsche. How, I ask in this paper, should we understand the relevant kind of love this amor fati involves, as against more familiar ideas of interpersonal love and love as historically understood in the philosophical tradition? The love we see with amor fati is not, as prominent readings would have it, about the supposed free bestowal of agape , nor the pursuit of …
Umwerthung in Action
The crowning project of Nietzsche’s career was to be an “Umwerthung aller Werthe,” typically translated as a “revaluation of all values.” But what would such a revaluation consist in? One answer current in the literature is that a revaluation of values is a principled philosophical reconsideration of certain regnant values, in light of some overarching value that serves as a standard. Power, it is in particular often claimed, is the centerpiece o…
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