Nietzsche's Political Skepticism

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Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Predatory State; Chapter 2 The Self-Destruction of Secular Religions; Chapter 3 Laws of Agreement; Chapter 4 Nietzsche as a Moral Antirealist; Chapter 5 Nietzsche as a Moral Realist; Chapter 6 Nietzsche as a Skeptic about Liberalism; Acknowledgments; Index.;Political theorists have long been frustrated by Nietzsche's work. Although he develops profound critiques of morality, culture, and religion, it is very difficult to spell out the precise political implications of his insights. He himself never did so in any systematic way. In this book, Tamsin Shaw claims that there is a reason for this: Nietzsche's insights entail a distinctive form of political skepticism. Shaw argues that the modern political predicament, for Nietzsche, is shaped by two important historical phenomena. The first is secularization, or the erosion of religious belief, and th.