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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Nietzsche Today , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (478 p.)
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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