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

✍ Scribed by Herman Siemens (editor); Vasti Roodt (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 900
• 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
Contents
References and Citations
Abbreviations
Translations of Nietzsche’s writings
Introduction
The Birth of the State
Nietzsche as ‘Über-Politischer Denker’
The Question of Nietzsche’s Anti-Politics and Human Transfiguration1
Nietzsche, Democracy, Time1
Nietzsche, Ethical Agency and the Problem of Democracy
Breaking the Contract Theory: The Individual and the Law in Nietzsche’s Genealogy
Nietzsche’s Reasoning against Democracy: Why He Uses the Social Herd Metaphor and Why He Fails
Critical Aspects of Nietzsche’s Relation to Politics and Democracy
Yes, No, Maybe So… Nietzsche’s Equivocations on the Relation between Democracy and ‘Grosse Politik’
The Sacrifice of the Overman as an Expression of the Will to Power: Anti-Political Consequences and Contributions to Democracy
Nietzsche’s Aristocratism Revisited
Anti-Politicality and Agon in Nietzsche’s Philology
Nietzsche as Bonapartist
‘Nietzsche Caesar’
How ‘Nietzschean’ Was Arendt?
Nietzsche and/or Arendt?
Overcoming Resentment. Remarks on the Supra-Moral Ethic of Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt
Forces and Powers in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche on Rights, Power and the Feeling of Power
On Nietzsche and the Enemy: Nietzsche’s New Politics
Nietzsche and Emerson on Friendship and Its Ethical-Political Implications
Manu as a Weapon against Egalitarianism: Nietzsche and Hindu Political Philosophy
Political Implications of Happiness in Descartes and Nietzsche
Nietzsche, Money And Bildung
A ‘Wondrous Echo’: Burckhardt, Renaissance and Nietzsche’s Political Thought
Nietzsche and the Psychology of Mimesis: From Plato to the Führer
Contingent Criticism: Bridging Ideology Critique and Genealogy
The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life
Corporealizing Thought: Translating the Eternal Return Back into Politics
‘Holding on to the Sublime’: Nietzsche on Philosophy’s Perception and Search for Greatness
The Struggle Between Ideals: Nietzsche, Schmitt and Lefort on the Politics of the Future
Backmatter