Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction: Essays on Liberalism, Socialism, and Aristocratic Radicalism

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• ISBN 10: 3031136357
• ISBN 13: 9783031136351
• Author: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Table of contents:

1. Nietzsche and the Political Right
2. Nietzsche’s Critique of Egalitarian Post-Christianity
3. Nietzsche, Politics, and Truth in an Age of Post-truth
4. Nietzsche as Muse to the Extreme Right
5. The Genealogy of Socialist Morality: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Nietzsche, G.A. Cohen and the Argumentative Value of Moral Disgust
6. Marx or Nietzsche? On Self-Actualization and Its Modern Discontents
7. Nietzsche’s Critique of Modernity
8. Nietzsche on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
9. Not Beyond Politics: The Metapolitical Dimensions of Nietzsche’s Anti-Democratism in Beyond Good and Evil
10. “Unhappy the Land Where Heroes Are Needed”: Nietzsche’s Overman in Dark Times
11. Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Aristocratic Being
12. The Aesthetic Politics of Value
13. Nietzsche’s Dionysus vs. The Nihilism of Social Media Shitposting
14. Animals Sick with Language: From Syntax to Socialism in Nietzsche
15. Recurrent Reaction: Nietzsche and the Thought of the French Middle Strata
16. Negative Politics: Nietzsche
17. The Warnings of Nietzsche’s Works: Rhetorical Persuasion in Triumph of the Wil

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