Nietzsche and Political Thought

✍ Scribed by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Paul Patton, Rosalyn Diprose, Peter R. Sedgwick, Robert Guay, David Owen, Herman W. Siemens, Alan D. Schrift, Gary Shapiro, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Michael Ure, Vanessa Lemm, Daniel Conway, Bruno Bosteels

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nietzsche challenges the tenets of received political wisdom in a number of ways and his thinking contains resources for revitalising political thinking. Nietzsche and Political Thought offers fresh insights into Nietzsche's relevance for contemporary political thought in light of recent advances in research in the field and key topics in contemporary theorising about politics.

An international team of leading scholars provide vital new perspectives on both core and novel topics including justice, democratic theory, biopolitics, the multitude, political psychology, and the Enlightenment. In spite of the controversies, what becomes clear is that Nietzsche is vital for political thought and a more sensitive and nuanced approach than conventional understandings allow is required. Nietzsche continues to have a lively presence in contemporary philosophy and this book reawakens interest in the political dimension of his thinking.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction by Keith Ansell-Pearson
1. Nietzsche, Genealogy and Justice by Paul Patton
2. Nietzsche on Truth, Honesty and Responsibility in Politics by Rosalyn Diprose
3. Nietzsche, Naturalism and Law by Peter R. Sedgwick
4. Movements and Motivations: Nietzsche and the Invention of Political Psychology by Robert Guay
5. Nietzsche’s Freedom: The Art of Agonic Perfectionism by David Owen
6. Reassessing Radical Democratic Theory in the Light of Nietzsche’s Ontology of Conflict by Herman W. Siemens
7. Spinoza vs. Kant: Have I Been Understood? by Alan D. Schrift
8. Kairos and Chronos: Nietzsche and the Time of the Multitude by Gary Shapiro
9. Nietzsche and the Engine of Politics by Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
10. Nietzsche’s Political Therapy by Michael Ure
11. Nietzsche’s Great Politics of the Event by Vanessa Lemm
12. Nietzsche’s Immoralism and the Advent of ‘Great Politics’ by Daniel Conway
13. Nietzsche, Badiou, and Grand Politics: An Antiphilosophical Reading by Bruno Bosteels