Nietzsche's great politics / Hugo Drochon.

ISBN:

9781400881031

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Author:

Drochon, Hugo, author.

Personal Author:

Drochon, Hugo, author.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editions and Translations Used -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Greeks -- Chapter 2. The State -- Chapter 3. Democracy -- Chapter 4. Philosophy and Politics -- Chapter 5. Revaluation -- Chapter 6. Great Politics -- Conclusion: Nietzsche Now -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Personal Subject:

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900-Political and social views.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900

Nietzsche, Friedrich 1844-1900

Subject Term:

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.

POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.

PHILOSOPHY -- Political.

Political and social views

Demokratie

Politik

Philosophie

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2016

Publication Information:

Princeton :

Princeton University Press,

[2016]

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Summary

"A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about [Nietzsche] in the past few years."--Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman

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.

Author Notes

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.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Among the controversies animating contemporary scholarship on Friedrich Nietzsche is the vexing question of whether the German philosopher thought systematically, explicitly, and coherently about politics. In this compelling and accessible study, Drochon (Univ. of Cambridge, UK)--a historian of 19th- and 20th-century political thought--argues the affirmative case, contending that Nietzsche articulated a "great politics" centered on the unification of Continental Europe under the aegis of a cultivated, interbred class of superior individuals who would ultimately lead a geopolitical struggle against Great Britain and Russia for world supremacy. What makes the iconoclast's thinking in the political domain specifically methodical and cogent rather than haphazard and disjointed, Drochon argues, is that the corpus in fact possesses four essential elements specified by the esteemed moral philosopher Bernard Williams: (1) ethical and psychological dimensions; (2) an intelligible theory of modern society; (3) a demonstrated linkage between (1) and (2); and (4) a reasoned perspective on the exercise of power in terms of essential characteristics, purposes, and limitations within and across nation-states. One can find lots of books on Nietzsche, but this one stands out for its clarity and excellence. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --Howard Ira Einsohn, Middlesex Community College