Nietzsche as Political Philosopher / / ed. by Manuel Knoll, Barry Stocker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Angier, Tom,; Ansell-Pearson, Keith,; Bamford, Rebecca,; Conway, Daniel,; Cristi, Renato,; Dombowsky, Don,; Emden, Christian J.,; Hatab, Lawrence J.,; Ioan, Razvan,; Knoll, Manuel,; Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas,; Miyasaki, Donovan,; Patton, Paul,; Roth, Phillip H.,; Sembou, Evangelia,; Shaw, Tamsin,; Stocker, Barry,; Zimmermann, Rolf,
• HerausgeberIn: Knoll, Manuel,; Stocker, Barry,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Nietzsche Today , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Nietzsche as political philosopher -- I. The Variety of Approaches to Nietzsche’s Political Thought -- 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 -- II. Democratic, or Liberal, or Egalitarian Politics in Nietzsche -- 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 -- III. Aristocratic, or Anti-Liberal, or Non- Egalitarian Politics in Nietzsche -- 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 -- IV. Ethics, Morality, and Politics in Nietzsche -- 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 -- V. Physiology, Genealogy, and Politics in Nietzsche -- The Politics of Physiology -- On the Genealogy of Nietzsche’s Values -- Foucault’s use of Nietzsche -- Notes on Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index