Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7767-9
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 307 g

Reihe: Philosophy and Social Criticism series

Written in a clear and engaging style, this text demonstrates Nietzsche's significance as a philosopher and as a political theorist by highlighting his critique of liberalism (in both its philosophical and political forms) and by elaborating the form of ethical and political understanding which his philosophy discloses.

In describing Nietzsche's diagnosis of the modern condition, this book explains the central aspects of his thought including the will to power, the Overman and amor fati. David Owen traces the relevance of Nietzsche's philosophy to current debates in political theory and engages with key figures such as MacIntyre, Taylor, Rorty and Rawls. Owen argues that the liberalism of the latter two can be seen as the contemporary expression of Nietzsche's dystopian vision of the Last Man and develops Nietzsche's political agonism as articulating a cogent alternative to liberal political theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Nietzsche contra Liberalism Reflections on the Character of Contests in Political Theory Truth and Eros A Critique of the Philosophical Commitments of Liberal Reason On the Genealogy of Modernity A Critical History of the Philosophical Commitments of Liberal Reason Modernity and the Destruction of the Ascetic Ideal Nihilism, Decadence and the Necessity of a Counter-Ideal Modernity, Ethics and Counter-Ideals Amor Fati, Eternal Recurrence and the Overman Agonism, Liberalism and the Cultivation of Virtu Ethics, Politics and the Critique of Political Liberalism Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Owen, David
David Owen is lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995).

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Samanta Ashenden Birkbeck College University of London

Paul Connolly University of Ulster

Mitchell Dean Macquarrie University

Peter Jowers University of the West of England

Thomas Osborne University of Bristol

Ralph Schroeder Royal Holloway College University of London

Nigel South University of Essex

Sean Watson University of the West of England

Malcolm Waters University of Tasmania