Aristocratic Radicalism as a Species of Bonapartism: Preliminary Elements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction: Nietzsche as political philosopher 1
5. I. The Variety of Approaches to Nietzsche’s Political Thought
6. The “Will to Power”: Towards a Nietzschean Systematics of Moral-Political Divergence in History in Light of the 20th Century 39
7. The Liberatory Limits of Nietzsche’s Colonial Imagination in Dawn 206 59
8. Nietzsche’s Political Materialism: Diagram for a Nietzschean Politics 77
9. II. Democratic, or Liberal, or Egalitarian Politics in Nietzsche
10. Nietzsche on Power and Democracy circa 1876–1881 93
11. Nietzsche’s Will to Power and Politics 113
12. A Comparison of Friedrich Nietzsche and Wilhelm von Humboldt as Products of Classical Liberalism 135
13. A Nietzschean Case for Illiberal Egalitarianism 155
14. III. Aristocratic, or Anti-Liberal, or Non- Egalitarian Politics in Nietzsche
15. Nietzsche, Theognis and Aristocratic Radicalism 173
16. Aristocratic Radicalism as a Species of Bonapartism: Preliminary Elements 195
17. Political and Psychological Prerequisites for Legislation in the Early Nietzsche 211
18. The “Übermensch” as a Social and Political Task: A Study in the Continuity of Nietzsche’s Political Thought 239
19. IV. Ethics, Morality, and Politics in Nietzsche
20. Care of Self in Dawn: On Nietzsche’s Resistance to Bio-political Modernity 269
21. “We who are different, we immoralists…” 287
22. Political Realism Naturalized: Nietzsche on the State, Morality, and Human Nature 313
23. The “Last Man” Problem: Nietzsche and Weber on Political Attitudes to Suffering 345
24. V. Physiology, Genealogy, and Politics in Nietzsche
25. The Politics of Physiology 383
26. On the Genealogy of Nietzsche’s Values 405
27. Foucault’s use of Nietzsche 431
28. Notes on Contributors 449
29. Name Index 455
30. Subject Index 465