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Author Siemens, Herman W

Title Nietzsche, Power and Politics : Rethinking Nietzsche's Legacy for Political Thought
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (900 pages)
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 Resent
Summary 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, Vill
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Subject Political psychology.
Political psychology
Form Electronic book
Author Roodt, Vasti
ISBN 9783110217339
3110217333