Nietzsche's Great Politics

Hugo Drochon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-16634-6 (ISBN)

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Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic theory or continental philosophy, Hugo Drochon argues that Nietzsche's political ideas must first be understood in light of Bismarck's policies, in particular his "Great Politics," which transformed the international politics of the late nineteenth century. Nietzsche's Great Politics shows how Nietzsche made Bismarck's notion his own, enabling him to offer a vision of a unified European political order that was to serve as a counterbalance to both Britain and Russia. This order was to be led by a "good European" cultural elite whose goal would be to encourage the rebirth of Greek high culture.
In relocating Nietzsche's politics to their own time, the book offers not only a novel reading of the philosopher but also a more accurate picture of why his political thought remains so relevant today.

Hugo Drochon is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political thought and a postdoctoral research fellow at CRASSH, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, at the University of Cambridge.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS USED xiii ABBREVIATIONS xv INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1. THE GREEKS 24 SOCRATES AND GREEK CULTURE 26 PLATO'S LEGISLATIVE MISSION 36 CONCLUSION 47 CHAPTER 2. THE STATE 49 WAGNER AND SLAVERY 52 "THE GREEK STATE" 55 THE DECAY OF THE MODERN STATE 60 BEYOND THE MODERN STATE 64 CONCLUSION 67 CHAPTER 3. DEMOCRACY 71 DEMOCRACY IN THE KAISERREICH 75 DEMOCRACY AND ARISTOCRACY 78 MISARCHISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND HERD MORALITY 80 DEGENERATION AND THE GOOD EUROPEAN 82 CASTE SOCIETY 88 SLAVERY 91 CONCLUSION 97 CHAPTER 4. PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS 105 THE WILL TO POWER 106 THE ETERNAL RETURN 110 THE OVERMAN 115 CONCLUSION: POLITICAL PERFECTIONISM 126 CHAPTER 5. REVALUATION 129 NIETZSCHE'S NACHLASS AND HIS LAST WORKS 135 THE PASSAGE A L'ACTE 144 CONCLUSION 151 CHAPTER 6. GREAT POLITICS 153 PETTY POLITICS 156 GREAT POLITICS 160 RELEARNING POLITICS 165 THE WAR OF SPIRITS 170 CONCLUSION 176 CONCLUSION: NIETZSCHE NOW 180 BIBLIOGRAPHY 185 INDEX 197

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2016
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	482 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-691-16634-X / 069116634X
ISBN-13	978-0-691-16634-6 / 9780691166346
Zustand	Neuware