Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche's Legacy for Political Thought

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Frontmatter; Contents; References and Citations; Abbreviations; Translations of Nietzsche's writings; Introduction; The Birth of the State; Nietzsche as 'Über-Politischer Denker'; The Question of Nietzsche's Anti-Politics and Human Transfiguration1; Nietzsche, Democracy, Time1; Nietzsche, Ethical Agency and the Problem of Democracy; Breaking the Contract Theory: The Individual and the Law in Nietzsche's Genealogy; Nietzsche's Reasoning against Democracy: Why He Uses the Social Herd Metaphor and Why He Fails; Critical Aspects of Nietzsche's Relation to Politics and Democracy.;Nietzsche?s legacy for political thought is a highly contested area of research today. With papers representing a broad range of positions, this collection takes stock of the central controversies (Nietzsche as political / anti-political thinker? Nietzsche and / contra democracy? Arendt and / contra Nietzsche?), as well as new research on key concepts (power, the agon, aristocracy, friendship i.a.), on historical, contemporary and futural aspects of Nietzsche?s political thought. International contributors include well-known names (Conway, Ansell-Pearson, Hatab, Taureck, Patton, Connolly, Vill.