Nietzsche's Great Politics by Hugo Drochon

Author:Hugo Drochon [Drochon, Hugo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Philosophy, European, History & Theory, Social History, Political Science, World, History, Political
ISBN: 9780691180694
Google: bXOYDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-04-03T11:39:04+00:00

1 On Nietzsche’s middle period, and how it differs from his earlier and later periods in this vein, see Ruth Abbey, Nietzsche’s Middle Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Paul Franco, Nietzsche’s Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011). Not everyone agrees with this periodization. Leiter, for instance, claims that Nietzsche’s mature work starts with Daybreak; see his Nietzsche on Morality (London: Routledge, 2003), 26.

2 See William Connolly, “Nietzsche, Democracy, Time,” in Nietzsche, Power, and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought, ed. Herman Siemens and Vasti Roodt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008), 118; David Owen, “Nietzsche, Ethical Agency, and the Problem of Democracy,” in Nietzsche, Power, and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought, ed. Herman Siemens and Vasti Roodt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008), 159. See also Alan Schrift, “Nietzsche’s Contest: Nietzsche and the Culture Wars,” in Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, ed. Alan Schrift (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 195–97; Paul Patton, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Justice,” in Nietzsche and Political Thought, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), 16.

3 See variously Bonnie Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993); William Connolly, Identity/Difference (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991); Mark Warren, Nietzsche and Political Thought (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991); Lawrence Hatab, A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics (Chicago: Open Court, 1995); Alan Schrift, ed., Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000); David Owen, Nietzsche, Politics, and Modernity (London: Sage, 1995).

4 Owen and Herman Siemens have argued that the agonistic theme is pervasive in Nietzsche’s later work. See David Owen, “Nietzsche’s Freedom: The Art of Agonic Perfectionism,” in Nietzsche and Political Thought, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (London: Bloomsbury, 2013).

5 For an example of this view, see Tracy Strong, Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).

6 For articles from the authors mentioned here, see Herman Siemens and Vasti Roodt, eds., Nietzsche, Power, and Politics: Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought, ed. Herman Siemens and Vasti Roodt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008).

7 Bruce Detwiler, Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990); Peter Berkowitz, Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Peter Bergmann, Nietzsche: “The Last Antipolitical German” (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987); Fredrick Appel, Nietzsche contra Democracy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999); Don Dombowsky, Nietzsche’s Machiavellian Politics (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

8 Here I follow Tracy Strong, “In Defense of Rhetoric: Or How Hard It Is to Take a Writer Seriously: The Case of Nietzsche,” Political Theory 41, no. 4 (2013), 507–32. Strong argues that Nietzsche’s use of rhetoric gives his readers the impression that he is writing for them, which can help explain why he appears to be appropriated by so many diverging causes. Strong’s point is that a close reading of Nietzsche’s texts forces us to develop a self-critique of ourselves, which I will return to in conclusion of this chapter.

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