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Nietzsche contra Democracy / Fredrick Appel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501733239
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320 21
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  • JC233.N52
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the use of primary sources -- Introduction -- 1. Science, Nature, and Nietzschean Ethics -- 2. Nietzschean Consciousness-Raising -- 3. Negation and Its Overcoming -- 4. Overcoming Solitude -- 5. The Higher Breeding of Humanity -- 6. The Art of Politics, -- 7. The Evil of the Strong -- Conclusion: The Perils of Agonistic Politics -- Index
Summary: Apolitical, amoral, an aesthete whose writings point toward some form of liberation: this is the figure who emerges from most recent scholarship on Friedrich Nietzsche. The Nietzsche whom Fredrick Appel portrays is of an altogether different character, one whose philosophical position is inseparable from a deep commitment to a hierarchical politics. Nietzsche contra Democracy gives us a thinker who, disdainful of the "petty politics" of his time, attempts to lay the normative foundations for a modern political alternative to democracy. Appel shows how Nietzsche's writings evoke the prospect of a culturally revitalized Europe in which the herdlike majority and its values are put in their proper place: under the control of a new, self-aware, and thoroughly modern aristocratic caste whose sole concern is its own flourishing.In chapters devoted to Nietzsche's little discussed views on solitude, friendship, sociability, families, and breeding, this book brings Nietzsche into conversation with Aristotelian and Stoic strains of thought. More than a healthy jolt to Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche contra Democracy also challenges political theory to articulate and defend the moral consensus undergirding democracy.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the use of primary sources -- Introduction -- 1. Science, Nature, and Nietzschean Ethics -- 2. Nietzschean Consciousness-Raising -- 3. Negation and Its Overcoming -- 4. Overcoming Solitude -- 5. The Higher Breeding of Humanity -- 6. The Art of Politics, -- 7. The Evil of the Strong -- Conclusion: The Perils of Agonistic Politics -- Index

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Apolitical, amoral, an aesthete whose writings point toward some form of liberation: this is the figure who emerges from most recent scholarship on Friedrich Nietzsche. The Nietzsche whom Fredrick Appel portrays is of an altogether different character, one whose philosophical position is inseparable from a deep commitment to a hierarchical politics. Nietzsche contra Democracy gives us a thinker who, disdainful of the "petty politics" of his time, attempts to lay the normative foundations for a modern political alternative to democracy. Appel shows how Nietzsche's writings evoke the prospect of a culturally revitalized Europe in which the herdlike majority and its values are put in their proper place: under the control of a new, self-aware, and thoroughly modern aristocratic caste whose sole concern is its own flourishing.In chapters devoted to Nietzsche's little discussed views on solitude, friendship, sociability, families, and breeding, this book brings Nietzsche into conversation with Aristotelian and Stoic strains of thought. More than a healthy jolt to Nietzsche scholarship, Nietzsche contra Democracy also challenges political theory to articulate and defend the moral consensus undergirding democracy.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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