Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche's Legacy for Political Thought

✍ Scribed by Siemens, Herman W., Herman W. Siemans, Vasti Roodt

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 901
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nietzsche´s legacy for political thought is a highly contested area of research today. With papers representing a broad range of positions, this collection takes stock of the central controversies (Nietzsche as political / anti-political thinker? Nietzsche and / contra democracy? Arendt and / contra Nietzsche?), as well as new research on key concepts (power, the agon, aristocracy, friendship i.a.), on historical, contemporary and futural aspects of Nietzsche´s political thought. International contributors include well-known names (Conway, Ansell-Pearson, Hatab, Taureck, Patton, Connolly, Villa, van Tongeren) and young emerging scholars from various disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
References and Citations......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Translations of Nietzsche’s writings......Page 22
Introduction......Page 24
I. Nietzsche as Political Thinker / Nietzsche as Anti-Political Thinker......Page 58
The Birth of the State......Page 60
Nietzsche as ‘Über-Politischer Denker’......Page 92
The Question of Nietzsche’s Anti-Politics and Human Transfiguration1......Page 108
II. Nietzsche and Democracy / Nietzsche contra Democracy
......Page 128
II.1 Nietzsche and democracy
......Page 130
Nietzsche, Democracy, Time......Page 132
Nietzsche, Ethical Agency and the Problem of Democracy......Page 166
Breaking the Contract Theory: The Individual and the Law in Nietzsche’s Genealogy......Page 192
II.2 Nietzsche contra democracy
......Page 212
Nietzsche’s Reasoning against Democracy: Why He Uses the Social Herd Metaphor and Why He Fails......Page 214
Critical Aspects of Nietzsche’s Relation to Politics and Democracy......Page 228
II.3 Nietzsche's equivocal relation to democracy
......Page 252
Yes, No, Maybe So… Nietzsche’s Equivocations on the Relation between Democracy and ‘Grosse Politik’......Page 254
The Sacrifice of the Overman as an Expression of the Will to Power: Anti-Political Consequences and Contributions to Democracy......Page 292
III. Nietzsche on Aristocracy and Empire
......Page 320
Nietzsche’s Aristocratism Revisited......Page 322
Anti-Politicality and Agon in Nietzsche’s Philology......Page 342
Nietzsche as Bonapartist......Page 370
‘Nietzsche Caesar’......Page 394
IV. Nietzsche and Arendt / Nietzsche versus Arendt
......Page 416
How ‘Nietzschean’ Was Arendt?......Page 418
Nietzsche and/or Arendt?......Page 434
Overcoming Resentment. Remarks on the Supra-Moral Ethic of Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt......Page 454
V. Nietzsche on Power and Rights
......Page 474
Forces and Powers in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals......Page 476
Nietzsche on Rights, Power and the Feeling of Power......Page 494
VI. Nietzsche's Politics of Friendship and Enmity
......Page 512
On Nietzsche and the Enemy: Nietzsche’s New Politics......Page 514
Nietzsche and Emerson on Friendship and Its Ethical-Political Implications......Page 534
VII. Nietzsche and Politics in Historical Perspective
......Page 564
Manu as a Weapon against Egalitarianism: Nietzsche and Hindu Political Philosophy......Page 566
Political Implications of Happiness in Descartes and Nietzsche......Page 606
Nietzsche, Money And Bildung......Page 628
A ‘Wondrous Echo’: Burckhardt, Renaissance and Nietzsche’s Political Thought......Page 652
Nietzsche and the Psychology of Mimesis: From Plato to the Führer......Page 690
VIII. Nietzsche and Contemporary Political Theory: Genealogy, Biopolitics and the Body
......Page 718
Contingent Criticism: Bridging Ideology Critique and Genealogy......Page 720
The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life......Page 742
Corporealizing Thought: Translating the Eternal Return Back into Politics......Page 764
IX. Nietzsche on Philosophy and Politics (of the Future)
......Page 788
‘Holding on to the Sublime’: Nietzsche on Philosophy’s Perception and Search for Greatness......Page 790
The Struggle Between Ideals: Nietzsche, Schmitt and Lefort on the Politics of the Future......Page 824
Contributors
......Page 840
Complete Bibliography
......Page 844
Name Index
......Page 874
Subject Index
......Page 880