Nietzsche, Power and Politics : : Rethinking Nietzsche's Legacy for Political Thought / / Herman Siemens, Vasti Roodt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• HerausgeberIn: Roodt, Vasti,; Siemens, Herman,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (700 p.)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- References and Citations -- Abbreviations -- Translations of Nietzsche’s writings -- Introduction -- The Birth of the State -- Nietzsche as ‘Über-Politischer Denker’ -- The Question of Nietzsche’s Anti-Politics and Human Transfiguration1 -- Nietzsche, Democracy, Time1 -- Nietzsche, Ethical Agency and the Problem of Democracy -- Breaking the Contract Theory: The Individual and the Law in Nietzsche’s Genealogy -- Nietzsche’s Reasoning against Democracy: Why He Uses the Social Herd Metaphor and Why He Fails -- Critical Aspects of Nietzsche’s Relation to Politics and Democracy -- Yes, No, Maybe So… Nietzsche’s Equivocations on the Relation between Democracy and ‘Grosse Politik’ -- The Sacrifice of the Overman as an Expression of the Will to Power: Anti-Political Consequences and Contributions to Democracy -- Nietzsche’s Aristocratism Revisited -- Anti-Politicality and Agon in Nietzsche’s Philology -- Nietzsche as Bonapartist -- ‘Nietzsche Caesar’ -- How ‘Nietzschean’ Was Arendt? -- Nietzsche and/or Arendt? -- Overcoming Resentment. Remarks on the Supra-Moral Ethic of Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt -- Forces and Powers in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals -- Nietzsche on Rights, Power and the Feeling of Power -- On Nietzsche and the Enemy: Nietsche’s New Politics -- Nietzsche and Emerson on Friendship and Its Ethical-Political Implications -- Manu as a Weapon against Egalitarianism: Nietzsche and Hindu Political Philosophy -- Political Implications of Happiness in Descartes and Nietzsche -- Nietzsche, Money And Bildung -- A ‘Wondrous Echo’: Burckhardt, Renaissance and Nietzsche’s Political Thought -- Nietzsche and the Psychology of Mimesis: From Plato to the Führer -- Contingent Criticism: Bridging Ideology Critique and Genealogy -- The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life -- Corporealizing Thought: Translating the Eternal Return Back into Politics -- ‘Holding on to the Sublime’: Nietzsche on Philosophy’s Perception and Search for Greatness -- The Struggle Between Ideals: Nietzsche, Schmitt and Lefort on the Politics of the Future -- Backmatter