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Ecce Homo as Nietzsche's Honest Lie (2021)
Book Chapter
Mitcheson, K. (2021). Ecce Homo as Nietzsche's Honest Lie. In Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo” (139-152). Berlin/ Munich/ Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246551-011

Once we recognize that for Nietzsche a new practice of truth aims to overcome ‘Truth’ as the ‘real world’, we can reconcile Nietzsche’s criticisms of ‘Truth’ with his praise of truth. If we are also to reconcile the importance of truthfulness, which... Read More about Ecce Homo as Nietzsche's Honest Lie.

On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being (2019)
Book Chapter
Mitcheson, K. (2019). On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being. In L. Irigaray, M. O'Brien, & C. Hadjioannou (Eds.), Towards a New Human Being (199-220). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03392-7_12

Luce Irigaray’s recent book To Be Born: Genesis of New a Human Being can be seen as a response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s well-known call for us to overcome humanity in its current form. Irigaray shares with Nietzsche the belief that to overcome the di... Read More about On Nietzsche and pregnancy; The beginning of the genesis of a new human being.

Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery (2018)
Book Chapter
Mitcheson, K. (2018). Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery. In M. Dennis, & S. Werkhoven (Eds.), Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge

In Michel Foucault’s late work he turns to ancient practices of the self, including stoicism, to explore whether such ‘technologies of the self’ can be taken up by the contemporary subject to cultivate a non-subjugated self. For Foucault, technologie... Read More about Foucault, stoicism and self-mastery.

The experiment of incorporating unbounded truth (2015)
Book Chapter
Mitcheson, K. (2015). The experiment of incorporating unbounded truth. In R. Bamford (Ed.), Nietzsche's Free Spirit Philosophy (139-156). Rowman and Littlefield International

This essay addresses two central and contested themes in Nietzsche’s philosophy: the incorporation of truth and the free spirit. I argue that it is the free spirit who takes up the challenge of incorporating truth and that to understand this figure w... Read More about The experiment of incorporating unbounded truth.