Nietzsche as political philosopher / edited by Manuel Knoll and Barry Stocker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knoll, Manuel, editor.

Stocker, Barry, editor.

Series:

Nietzsche today (Series) ; Volume 3.

Nietzsche Today, 2191-5741 ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Political and social views.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection establishes Nietzsche's importance as a political philosopher. It includes a substantial introduction and eighteen chapters by some of the most renowned Nietzsche scholars. The book examines Nietzsche's connections with political thought since Plato, major influences on him, his methodology, and his influence on subsequent thought. The book includes extensive coverage of the debate between radical aristocratic readings of Nietzsche, and more liberal or democratic readings. Close readings of Nietzsche's texts are combined with a contextualising approach to build up a complete picture of his place in political philosophy. Topics include the relevance of Bonapartism and classical liberalism, Nietzsche on Christianity, the cultural history of Germany, the Übermensch, ethics and politics in Nietzsche, and the controversial question of his political preferences and affinities. Nietzsche's political thought is compared with that of Humboldt, Weber and Foucault. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Nietzsche's thought, political philosophy, and the history of political ideas.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: Nietzsche as political philosopher

The “Will to Power”: Towards a Nietzschean Systematics of Moral-Political Divergence in History in Light of the 20th Century

The Liberatory Limits of Nietzsche’s Colonial Imagination in Dawn 206

Nietzsche’s Political Materialism: Diagram for a Nietzschean Politics

Nietzsche on Power and Democracy circa 1876–1881

Nietzsche’s Will to Power and Politics

A Comparison of Friedrich Nietzsche and Wilhelm von Humboldt as Products of Classical Liberalism

A Nietzschean Case for Illiberal Egalitarianism

Nietzsche, Theognis and Aristocratic Radicalism

Aristocratic Radicalism as a Species of Bonapartism: Preliminary Elements

Political and Psychological Prerequisites for Legislation in the Early Nietzsche

The “Übermensch” as a Social and Political Task: A Study in the Continuity of Nietzsche’s Political Thought

Care of Self in Dawn: On Nietzsche’s Resistance to Bio-political Modernity

“We who are different, we immoralists…”

Political Realism Naturalized: Nietzsche on the State, Morality, and Human Nature

The “Last Man” Problem: Nietzsche and Weber on Political Attitudes to Suffering

The Politics of Physiology

On the Genealogy of Nietzsche’s Values

Foucault’s use of Nietzsche

Notes on Contributors

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110377910

3110377918

9783110359459

3110359456

OCLC:

890071047