Deed is Everything

Nietzsche is often held to be an extreme sceptic about human agency, keen to debunk it along every dimension. He dismisses the ideas of freedom, autonomy and morality, we are told, and even the very existence of agents or selves. This book sets out the opposite view.Ridley argues that Nietzsche is committed to an ''expressivist'' conception of agency, a conception that allows him to develop high...