Freedom, Resistance, Agency
نویسنده
چکیده
The aim of this article is to show (1) that freedom and agency are among Nietzsche’s central concerns, (2) that his much-discussed interest in power in fact originates in a first-person account of freedom, and (3) that this novel understanding of the phenomenon of freedom informs his ‘theory’ of agency. I will argue that while Nietzsche questions the weight philosophers have given to the first-person perspective and consciousness, these remain essential not only to his initial analysis but also to his later conception of freedom and agency. While his rejection of metaphysical free will and moral desert has had a significant impact on contemporary ethics, the sense in which Nietzsche continues to use the term ‘freedom’ affirmatively remains largely unnoticed. He develops a sophisticated drive-driven psychological
منابع مشابه
Memory, Reverie Machine: towards a dance of agency in interactive storytelling
Agency is a crucial concept that links an individual to the material world and society around. Different approaches lend themselves to distinctive social and political practices. The “free will” view emphasizes an individual’s uncompromised liberty; feminist theorists locate agency in one’s resistance of the hegemonic patriarchal status quo; whereas some read Foucault’s impersonal discourses [3...
متن کاملDispositions and Free Will
Many opponents of free-will libertarianism argue that libertarian free agency is unintelligible. The aim of my talk is to answer them by suggesting that a coherent conception of libertarian freedom is possible if (and, possibly, only if) we adopt dispositionalism as the explanatory framework of human agency. My argument proceeds as follows. First, I classify the existing explanations of human a...
متن کاملDirt, disease and death: control, resistance and change in the post-emancipation Caribbean.
This study examines how health facilities and services were used as an agency of worker control in the British Caribbean between 1838 and 1860. It argues that planter health strategies were based on flawed assumptions. The resultant policy of deprivation of access to medical services by the labouring population backfired within 16 years of freedom when a cholera epidemic rocked the region. It e...
متن کاملMemory, Reverie Machine: Toward a Dance of Agency in Interactive Storytelling
In many interactive narrative pieces, agency is often narrowly understood as a user’s freedom to either perform actions or alter the mechanics of narration at will. This paper presents an interactive narrative project, Memory, Reverie Machine (MRM), which explores the expressive use of agency as a narrative device. After a concise review of the concept’s rich social implications and its adaptat...
متن کامل