評Christian J. Emden, Nietzsche’s Naturalism. Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Nineteenth Century

A Review of Christian J. Emden’s Nietzsche’s Naturalism. Philosophy and the Life Sciences in the Nineteenth Century

尼采的自然主義或者尼采作為自然主義者可以說是過去二十年英美尼采學界最為熱門的研究論題之一，而在所有相關作品中，Christian Emden的《尼采的自然主義》則憑藉其出色的歷史脈絡化工作以及對哲學問題的敏銳關注而成為尼采研究領域不可忽略的著作。在書中，Emden 在十九世紀早期新康德主義以及生命科學的脈絡下重構了尼采的自然主義，並認為尼采的系譜學提供了對規範性的一個自然歷史的詮釋。本文將首先簡介在英美以及德國學界所展開的對尼采自然主義詮釋的爭論，接著概覽Emden 一書的章節內容，隨後介紹以及評論此書的核心觀點，最後則以對當代尼采研究的簡短反思作為結論。

Nietzsche’s naturalism or Nietzsche as a naturalist could be regarded as one of the hottest research topics in Anglo-American Nietzsche studies in the past twenty years.
Of all the related works, Christian Emden’s Nietzsche’s Naturalism is indispensable in the field of Nietzsche studies for its excellent historical contextualization and keen attention to philosophical problems. In this book, he reconstructs Nietzsche’s philosophical naturalism in the context of early neo-Kantianism and the life sciences in the nineteenth century and interprets Nietzsche’s genealogy as a philosophical critique that delivers a natural history of normativity. This review will begin with a brief introduction of the debate around Nietzsche’s naturalism in Anglo-American and German scholarship, then give an overview of the chapters in Emden’s book. After introducing and commenting on Emden’s core ideas, it will conclude with a brief reflection on contemporary Nietzsche studies.