Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference

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The question of Nietzsche's use of political theory has a long and vexed history. The contributors of this book re-situate debates around the notion of difference, in relation to historical and scholarly concerns, but with a view to the current political context. Given that today we are faced with a host of political challenges of domination and resistance, the question raised in this volume is how Nietzsche helps us to think through and to address some of the problems. The authors also discuss how his writings complicate our desire for swift solutions to seemingly intractable problems: how to resist slavishness in thought and action, how to maintain hard-won civil liberties and rights in the face of encroaching hegemonic discourses, practices and forces, or how to counteract global environmental degradation, in short, how to oppose 'totalitarian' movements of homogenization, universalization, equalization, and instead to affirm, both politically and ontologically, a culture of difference. Table of Contents Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Politics and Difference Nietzsche, Rancière and the Disputation of Politics Composing Time: Stiegler on Nietzsche, Nihilism and a Possible Future Part 2 Politics and Identity Nietzsche’s Diagnosis of Socrates in The Birth of Tragedy: Voyeurism and the Denigration of Difference Ecce Homo – Notes on Duplicates: The Great Politics of the Self Voluntary Submission and the ʻPolitics of Truth’: Nietzsche and Foucault on the Danger of the Fully Normalised ‘Last Human’ Towards Immanence – A Nietzschean Trajectory Part 3 Nietzsche and Deleuze on a New Politics Echoes of a New Politics: Deleuze’s Nietzsche and the Political The Topology of Difference: Deleuze’s Nietzsche in his Politics of Folded Spaces and Subjects Fake or Just Stupid? – Post-Truth Politics, Nihilism and the Politics of Difference in Light of Deleuze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy The Idiot: Deleuze’s Nietzsche for a Politics of Difference Part 4 The Politics of the Agon Disparate Conceptions of the Agon: Nietzsche and Agonistic Democracy Agonal Human Rights: A Re-evaluation of Democracy Through Nietzsche’s Physio-Psychology of Will to Power Part 5 Plurality, Affirmation, Immanence Nietzsche and a Politics of Difference: Realising the Forces in the Margins Nietzsche, Foucault and the Politics of the Ascetic Ideal The Quandary of Identity and the Prospective Appearance of Free Spirits in our Globalising Age Notes on Contributors Index