Nietzsche, the aristocratic rebel : : intellectual biography and critical balance-sheet / / by Domenico Losurdo ; with an introduction by Harrison Fluss ; translated by Gregor Benton.

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 200
• VerfasserIn: Losurdo, Domenico,
• TeilnehmendeR: Benton, Gregor,; Fluss, Harrison,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; Italian
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 200.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: "Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002."

Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his ‘superman’ the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a he...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Motto
• Motto
• Motto
• Motto
• Motto
• Introduction to the English-Language Edition / Harrison Fluss
• Nietzsche in His Time: In Struggle against Socratism and Judaism
• The Crisis of Culture from Socrates to the Paris Commune
• Tradition, Myth and the Critique of Revolution
• Socratism and ‘Present-Day Judaism’
• The Founding of the Second Reich, and Conflicting Myths of Origin
• From the ‘Judaism’ of Socrates to the ‘Judaism’ of Strauss
• Nietzsche in His Time: Four Successive Approaches to the Critique of Revolution
• The ‘Solitary Rebel’ Breaks with Tradition and the ‘Popular Community’
• The ‘Solitary Rebel’ Becomes an ‘Enlightener’
• From Anti-revolutionary ‘Enlightenment’ to the Encounter with the Great Moralists
• Between German National Liberalism and European Liberalism
• The Poet of the ‘People’s Community’, the ‘Solitary Rebel’, the Anti-revolutionary ‘Enlightener’ and the Theorist of ‘Aristocratic Radicalism’
• ‘Aristocratic Radicalism’ and the ‘New Party of Life’
• Nietzsche in His Time: Theory and Practice of Aristocratic Radicalism
• Slavery in the United States and in the Colonies and the Struggle between Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
• ‘Hierarchy’, Great Chain of Being and Great Chain of Pain
• The ‘Uneducated Masses’, the ‘Freethinker’ and the ‘Free Spirit’: Critique and Meta-critique of Ideology
• From the Critique of the French Revolution to the Critique of the Jewish-Christian Revolution
• The Long Cycle of Revolution and the Curse of Nihilism
• The Late Nietzsche and the Longed-for Coup against the ‘Social Monarchy’ of Wilhelm II and Stöcker
• ‘Anti-Anti-Semitism’ and the Extension to Christians and ‘Anti-Semites’ of the Anti-socialist Laws
• ‘New Party of Life’, Eugenics and ‘Annihilation of Millions of Deformed’
• Beyond ‘Metaphor’ and ‘Anticipation’: Nietzsche in Comparative Perspective
• ‘Metaphor’, ‘Anticipation’ and ‘Translatability of Languages’
• Politics and Epistemology between Liberalism and ‘Aristocratic Radicalism’
• Otium et bellum: Aristocratic Distinction and the Struggle against Democracy
• Social Darwinism, Eugenics and Colonial Massacres
• Nietzsche and the Aristocratic Reaction in Two Historical Epochs
• Philosophers, Historians and Sociologists: The Conflict of Interpretations
• Aristocratic Radicalism, Pan-European Elite and Anti-Semitism
• Culture in Search of Its Slaves: From the Late Nineteenth Century Anti-democratic Reaction to Nazism
• Transformations of Aryan Mythology, Condemnation of the Revolutionary Conspiracy and the Formation of Anti-Semitism
• In Nietzsche’s Philosophical Laboratory
• A Philosopher totus politicus
• How to Challenge Two Millennia of History – Anti-dogmatism, and Dogmatism of Aristocratic Radicalism
• From Suprahistorical Myth to the Opening of New Perspectives for Historical Research
• Nietzsche and Us – Radicality and Demystifying Potential of the Reactionary Project
• The Radical Aristocrat and the Great Moralist
• Crisis of the Western Myth of Origin and of Imperial Universalism
• Individualism and Holism, Inclusion and Exclusion: The Liberal Tradition, Nietzsche and the History of the West
• Back Matter
• How One Constructs Nietzsche’s Innocence: Publishers, Translators, Interpreters
• Nietzsche’s Spectacles and Umbrella: An Answer to My Critics
• Abbreviations Used in Citing Nietzsche’s writings
• Bibliography
• Index.