Nietzsche as political philosopher /

This volume establishes Nietzsche s importance as a political philosopher. The introduction and eighteen chapters cover Nietzsche s own political thought, its relation to ethics and morality, his methodology, the historical context, and his influence on subsequent thought. The book is essential read...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Knoll, Manuel; Stocker, Barry.
Published: De Gruyter,
Publisher Address: Berlin/Boston :
Publication Dates: [2014]
©2014
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Nietzsche today; 3
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110359459
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Summary: This volume establishes Nietzsche s importance as a political philosopher. The introduction and eighteen chapters cover Nietzsche s own political thought, its relation to ethics and morality, his methodology, the historical context, and his influence on subsequent thought. The book is essential reading for anyone concerned with Nietzsche, political philosophy, and the history of political ideas.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (x, 478 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in print edition.
ISBN: 9783110359459
Index Number: JC233
CLC: B516.47
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Abbreviations --
Introduction: Nietzsche as political philosopher /
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 /
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 /
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 " bermensch" as a Social and Political Task: A Study in the Continuity of Nietzsche s Political Thought /
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 /
The Politics of Physiology /
On the Genealogy of Nietzsche s Values /
Foucault s use of Nietzsche /
Notes on Contributors --
Name Index --
Subject Index.