Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger

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Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Recollection of Freedom My Interpretive Approach 1 Escape to Lake Bienne: How Rousseau Turned the World Upside Down The Critique of Bourgeois Life The Natural Condition of Man The Social Contract and the General Will Love and Family The Solitary Dreamer Unresolved Paradoxes: Rousseau's Bequest 2 Redeeming Modernity: The Erotic Ascent of Hegel's Phenomenology The Paradoxes of Rousseau and the Responses from Kant and Schiller Love and Understanding: The Emergence of Hegelian Historicism The Concept of Spirit The Structure and Content of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel on the Ancient Polis and Its Overcoming History and Political Life Terror and Dialectic: Concluding Reflections on the Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology Marx and the First Assault on the Hegelian Middle Evolution or Revolution? 3 The Will to Power and the Politics of Greatness: Nietzsche's Revelation Tragedy and the World-Artist How Much History? A Homeopathic Prescription Preliminary Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of History Bending the Bow and The Prejudices of Philosophers The New Philosophers? The Advantages and Disadvantages of Religion for Life Cleansing the Palate and Beginning Again Philosophers Who Command Unconditionally: The Coming Battle All Will Be Different Dreaming of Europe: A Mellow Old Soul and an Ever-Young Future What Endures? Zarathustra's Teaching: General Reflections on Nietzsche's Philosophy of History and Its Political Implications Zarathustra versus The Crucified? The Ambiguities of Nietzsche's Assessment of Christianity The Fundamental Premises of Nietzsche's Historicism The Politics of Greatness 4 The Distant Command of the Greeks: Heidegger and the Community of Destiny The Being Tree: Introductory Remarks on Heideggerian Ontology Authenticity, Commitment and Resolve The Inner Truth and Greatness of National Socialism Let Us Compare Etymologies The Political Implications of Heidegger's Early Thought The Attraction and the Culpability Eschatological Reversal: The Shepherd of Being and the Deliverance of the Earth The Wrong Existentialism Technology and the Future of Being The Unacknowledged Ally: Heidegger's Dubious Appropriation of Nietzsche Conclusion: Three Perspectives on Heidegger and an Attempt at a General Evaluation Conclusion: The Fragmented Legacy of the Philosophy of Freedom The End of Absolute Knowledge The Breakup: Habermas, Foucault and Gadamer The Lingering Vision of the Ancient Greeks History and Revelation The Revolution Continues: The Philosophy of Freedom and the Political World More Recent Heideggerian Hybrids Apocalypse Now? Further Reading Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Conclusion Bibliography Index