What is it about?
The subtitle of this article is "On a Perennial Misreading of the Second Essay of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality." I support the views of Hatab, Acampora, and (to a lesser extent) Leiter that Nietzsche's mention of the "sovereign individual" is NOT indicative of a positive, ethical ideal. This autonomous individual is in fact linked to the ascetic ideal and represents a classic Enlightenment ideal that Nietzsche rejects.
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Why is it important?
Although the ideas in this article are not entirely novel, they are presented in a way that is more textually grounded than past articulations, and I use previously unmentioned evidence from Nietzsche's Nachlass. This article also more directly engages and criticizes the literature that supports the false interpretation.
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This page is a summary of: The “Sovereign Individual” and the “Ascetic Ideal”, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, January 2012, The Pennsylvania State University Press,
DOI: 10.5325/jnietstud.43.2.0213.
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