‘Holding on to the Sublime’: Nietzsche on Philosophy’s Perception and Search for Greatness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. References and Citations XIII
4. Abbreviations XV
5. Translations of Nietzsche’s writings XXI
6. Introduction 1
7. I. Nietzsche as Political Thinker/ Nietzsche as Anti-political Thinker
8. The Birth of the State 37
9. Nietzsche as ‘Über-Politischer Denker’ 69
10. The Question of Nietzsche’s Anti-Politics and Human Transfiguration1 85
11. II. Nietzsche and Democracy/Nietzsche contra Democracy
12. Nietzsche, Democracy, Time1 109
13. Nietzsche, Ethical Agency and the Problem of Democracy 143
14. Breaking the Contract Theory: The Individual and the Law in Nietzsche’s Genealogy 169
15. Nietzsche’s Reasoning against Democracy: Why He Uses the Social Herd Metaphor and Why He Fails 191
16. Critical Aspects of Nietzsche’s Relation to Politics and Democracy 205
17. Yes, No, Maybe So… Nietzsche’s Equivocations on the Relation between Democracy and ‘Grosse Politik’ 231
18. The Sacrifice of the Overman as an Expression of the Will to Power: Anti-Political Consequences and Contributions to Democracy 269
19. III. Nietzsche on Aristocracy and Empire
20. Nietzsche’s Aristocratism Revisited 299
21. Anti-Politicality and Agon in Nietzsche’s Philology 319
22. Nietzsche as Bonapartist 347
23. ‘Nietzsche Caesar’ 371
24. IV. Nietzsche and Arendt/Nietzsche versus Arendt
25. How ‘Nietzschean’ Was Arendt? 395
26. Nietzsche and/or Arendt? 411
27. Overcoming Resentment. Remarks on the Supra-Moral Ethic of Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt 431
28. V. Nietzsche on Power and Rights
29. Forces and Powers in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals 453
30. Nietzsche on Rights, Power and the Feeling of Power 471
31. VI. Nietzsche’s Politics of Friendship and Enmity
32. On Nietzsche and the Enemy: Nietsche’s New Politics 491
33. Nietzsche and Emerson on Friendship and Its Ethical-Political Implications 511
34. VII. Nietzsche and Politics in Historical Perspective
35. Manu as a Weapon against Egalitarianism: Nietzsche and Hindu Political Philosophy 543
36. Political Implications of Happiness in Descartes and Nietzsche 583
37. Nietzsche, Money And Bildung 605
38. A ‘Wondrous Echo’: Burckhardt, Renaissance and Nietzsche’s Political Thought 629
39. Nietzsche and the Psychology of Mimesis: From Plato to the Führer 667
40. VIII. Nietzsche and Contemporary Political Theory: Genealogy, Biopolitics and the Body
41. Contingent Criticism: Bridging Ideology Critique and Genealogy 697
42. The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life 719
43. Corporealizing Thought: Translating the Eternal Return Back into Politics 741
44. IX. Nietzsche on Philosophy and Politics (of the Future)
45. ‘Holding on to the Sublime’: Nietzsche on Philosophy’s Perception and Search for Greatness 767
46. The Struggle Between Ideals: Nietzsche, Schmitt and Lefort on the Politics of the Future 801
47. Backmatter 817