Nietzsche's Great Politics (eBook)

Hugo Drochon (Autor)

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2016
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8103-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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"e;A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about [Nietzsche] in the past few years."e;-Gavin Jacobson, New StatesmanNietzsche'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 "e;Great Politics,"e; 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 "e;good European"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2016
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: After Virtue • Alexander Nehamas • Ancient Greece • aphorism • Apollonian and Dionysian • aristocracy • Arthur Schopenhauer • Bellum omnium contra omnes • Bernard Williams • Beyond Good and Evil • Bonnie Honig • Brian Leiter • Cambridge University Press • Career • Concept • Contemporary Society • Contradiction • critique • Darwinism • David Runciman • Democracy • Democratization • Disenchantment • ethics • Existence • Franco-Prussian War • Friedrich Nietzsche • German philosophy • god is dead • Good and evil • Hegelianism • High Culture • hostility • Institution • Intellectual • Jacques Derrida • Jews • John Rawls • J. W. Burrow • last man • Lecture • Legislation • Legitimacy (political) • Literature • Machiavellianism • Martin Heidegger • Master–slave morality • Mazzino Montinari • Modernity • Morality • Nachlass • nation state • Nihilism • of education • on the genealogy of morality • Oxford University Press • Pathos • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks • Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche • Plato • Platonism • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Politics • Postmodernism • Pre-Socratic Philosophy • Princeton University Press • Quentin Skinner • Radicalism (historical) • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Realpolitik • regulatory state • Religion • Republic (Plato) • Ressentiment • rhetoric • Romanticism • Routledge • Self-Interest • Slavery • State of nature • State (polity) • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • The Birth of Tragedy • The End of History and the Last Man • The Gay Science • theory • The Philosopher • Thomas Hobbes • Thought • Thus Spoke Zarathustra • Tractatus politicus • Transvaluation of values • Twilight of the Idols • Will to Power • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8103-X / 140088103X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8103-1 / 9781400881031