Nietzsche's Great Politics / / Hugo Drochon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Drochon, Hugo,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic theory or continental philosophy, Hugo Drochon argues that Nietzsche's political ideas must first be understood in light of Bismarck's policies, in particular his "Great Politics," which transformed the international politics of the late nineteenth century.Nietzsche's Great Politics shows how Nietzsche made Bismarck's notion his own, enabling him to offer a vision of a unified European political order that was to serve as a counterbalance to both Britain and Russia. This order was to be led by a "good European" cultural elite whose goal would be to encourage the rebirth of Greek high culture. In relocating Nietzsche's politics to their own time, the book offers not only a novel reading of the philosopher but also a more accurate picture of why his political thought remains so relevant today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editions and Translations Used -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Greeks -- Chapter 2. The State -- Chapter 3. Democracy -- Chapter 4. Philosophy and Politics -- Chapter 5. Revaluation -- Chapter 6. Great Politics -- Conclusion: Nietzsche Now -- Bibliography -- Index