| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 1054 pages) |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series ; 200
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| Contents |
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Motto -- Motto -- Motto -- Motto -- Motto -- Introduction to the English-Language Edition / Harrison Fluss -- Nietzsche in His Time: In Struggle against Socratism and Judaism -- The Crisis of Culture from Socrates to the Paris Commune -- Tradition, Myth and the Critique of Revolution -- Socratism and 'Present-Day Judaism' -- The Founding of the Second Reich, and Conflicting Myths of Origin -- From the 'Judaism' of Socrates to the 'Judaism' of Strauss -- Nietzsche in His Time: Four Successive Approaches to the Critique of Revolution -- The 'Solitary Rebel' Breaks with Tradition and the 'Popular Community' -- The 'Solitary Rebel' Becomes an 'Enlightener' -- From Anti-revolutionary 'Enlightenment' to the Encounter with the Great Moralists -- Between German National Liberalism and European Liberalism -- The Poet of the 'People's Community', the 'Solitary Rebel', the Anti-revolutionary 'Enlightener' and the Theorist of 'Aristocratic Radicalism' -- 'Aristocratic Radicalism' and the 'New Party of Life' -- Nietzsche in His Time: Theory and Practice of Aristocratic Radicalism -- Slavery in the United States and in the Colonies and the Struggle between Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists -- 'Hierarchy', Great Chain of Being and Great Chain of Pain -- The 'Uneducated Masses', the 'Freethinker' and the 'Free Spirit': Critique and Meta-critique of Ideology -- From the Critique of the French Revolution to the Critique of the Jewish-Christian Revolution -- The Long Cycle of Revolution and the Curse of Nihilism -- The Late Nietzsche and the Longed-for Coup against the 'Social Monarchy' of Wilhelm II and Stöcker -- 'Anti-Anti-Semitism' and the Extension to Christians and 'Anti-Semites' of the Anti-socialist Laws -- 'New Party of Life', Eugenics and 'Annihilation of Millions of Deformed' -- Beyond 'Metaphor' and 'Anticipation': Nietzsche in Comparative Perspective -- 'Metaphor', 'Anticipation' and 'Translatability of Languages' -- Politics and Epistemology between Liberalism and 'Aristocratic Radicalism' -- Otium et bellum: Aristocratic Distinction and the Struggle against Democracy -- Social Darwinism, Eugenics and Colonial Massacres -- Nietzsche and the Aristocratic Reaction in Two Historical Epochs -- Philosophers, Historians and Sociologists: The Conflict of Interpretations -- Aristocratic Radicalism, Pan-European Elite and Anti-Semitism -- Culture in Search of Its Slaves: From the Late Nineteenth Century Anti-democratic Reaction to Nazism -- Transformations of Aryan Mythology, Condemnation of the Revolutionary Conspiracy and the Formation of Anti-Semitism -- In Nietzsche's Philosophical Laboratory -- A Philosopher totus politicus -- How to Challenge Two Millennia of History - Anti-dogmatism, and Dogmatism of Aristocratic Radicalism -- From Suprahistorical Myth to the Opening of New Perspectives for Historical Research -- Nietzsche and Us - Radicality and Demystifying Potential of the Reactionary Project -- The Radical Aristocrat and the Great Moralist -- Crisis of the Western Myth of Origin and of Imperial Universalism -- Individualism and Holism, Inclusion and Exclusion: The Liberal Tradition, Nietzsche and the History of the West -- Back Matter -- How One Constructs Nietzsche's Innocence: Publishers, Translators, Interpreters -- Nietzsche's Spectacles and Umbrella: An Answer to My Critics -- Abbreviations Used in Citing Nietzsche's writings -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work that constitutes the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking - his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics - he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche's works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the original Italian into English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2020) |
| Subject |
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
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Philosophy, Modern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fluss, Harrison, writer of introduction
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Benton, Gregor, translator
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| LC no. |
2019036347 |
| ISBN |
9789004270954 |
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9004270957 |
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