Full Description
This book is intended as a major interdisciplinary contribution to the study of Nietzsche's thought in particular, and the political right more generally. Historically the assessment of Nietzsche's politics has ranged from denouncing him as a forerunner to Nazism to claiming he effectively did not have articulated political convictions. During the latter half of the 20th century he surprisingly became a major theoretical influence on a variety of post-structuralist radical critics, who saw in his perspectivism and genealogy of power useful tools to critique existent structures of domination. This collection of essays reframes the debate by looking at Nietzsche's constructive political project defending aristocratic values from the levelling influence of the herd and its liberal, socialist, and democratic spokesmen. The essays will also explore how this defense of aristocratic values continues to have an influence on the political right, inspiring moderates like Jordan Peterson and farright authors and activists like Aleksandr Dugin and Steve Bannon.
Contents
Part I: Nietzsche and the Political Right.- Chapter 1: Nietzsche's Critique of Egalitarian Post-Christianity.- Chapter 2: Nietzsche, Politics, and Truth in an Age of Post-Truth.- Chapter 3: Nietzsche as Muse to the Far Right.- Chapter 4: The Genealogy of Socialist Morality: Some Preliminary Thoughts On Nietzsche, G.A. Cohen and the Argumentative Value of Moral Disgust.- Part II: Nietzsche's Critique of Modernity.- Chapter 5: Nietzsche and Losurdo on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.- Chapter 6: Not Beyond Politics: The Metaphysical Dimensions of Nietzsche's Anti Democratism in Beyond Good and Evil.- Chapter 7: Unhappy the Land Where Heroes Are Needed: Nietzsche's Overman in Dark Times.- Chapter 8: Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Aristocratic Being.- Part III: The Aesthetic Politics of Value.- Chapter 9: Nietzsche's Dionysus vs. The Nihilism of Social Media Shitposting.- Chapter 10: Animals Sick with Language: From Syntax to Socialism in Nietzsche.- Chapter 11: Recurrent Reaction: Nietzsche and the Reaction of the Middle French Strata.- Chapter 12: Negative Politics: Nietzsche.- Chapter 12: The Warnings of Nietzsche's Works: Rhetorical Persuasion in Triumph of the Will (1935) and Death of a Nation (2018).
