Nietzsche contra Democracy / Fredrick Appel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appel, Fredrick, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Political Science & Political History.

Local Subjects:

Political Science & Political History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Apolitical, amoral, an aesthete whose writings point toward some form of liberation: this is the figure who emerges from most recent scholarship on Friedrich Nietzsche. The Nietzsche whom Fredrick Appel portrays is of an altogether different character, one whose philosophical position is inseparable from a deep commitment to a hierarchical politics. Nietzsche contra Democracy gives us a thinker who, disdainful of the "petty politics" of his time, attempts to lay the normative foundations for a modern political alternative to democracy. Appel shows how Nietzsche's writings evoke the prospect of a culturally revitalized Europe in which the herdlike majority and its values are put in their proper place: under the control of a new, self-aware, and thoroughly modern aristocratic caste whose sole concern is its own flourishing.In chapters devoted to Nietzsche's little discussed views on solitude, friendship, sociability, families, and breeding, this book brings Nietzsche into conversation with Aristotelian and Stoic strains of thought. More than a healthy jolt to Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche contra Democracy also challenges political theory to articulate and defend the moral consensus undergirding democracy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on the use of primary sources

Introduction

1. Science, Nature, and Nietzschean Ethics

2. Nietzschean Consciousness-Raising

3. Negation and Its Overcoming

4. Overcoming Solitude

5. The Higher Breeding of Humanity

6. The Art of Politics,

7. The Evil of the Strong

Conclusion: The Perils of Agonistic Politics

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501733239

1501733230

OCLC:

1129161796