| Uniform title | Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico. English |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 200
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| Contents |
The crisis of culture from Socrates to the Paris commune -- Tradition, myth and the critique of revolution -- Socratism and 'present-day Judaism' -- The founding of the second Reich, and conflicting myths of origin -- From the 'Judaism' of Socrates to the 'Judaism' of Strauss -- The 'solitary rebel' breaks with tradition and the 'popular community' -- The 'solitary rebel' becomes an 'enlightener' -- From anti-revolutionary 'enlightenment' to the encounter with the great moralists -- Between German national liberalism and European liberalism -- The poet of the 'people's community', the 'solitary rebel', the antirevolutionary 'enlightener' and the theorist of 'aristocratic radicalism' -- 'Aristocratic radicalism' and the 'new party of life' -- Slavery in the United States and in the colonies and the struggle between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists -- 'Hierarchy', great chain of being and great chain of pain -- The 'uneducated masses', the 'freethinker' and the 'free spirit': critique and meta-critique of ideology -- From the critique of the french revolution to the critique of the Jewish-Christian revolution -- The long cycle of revolution and the curse of nihilism -- The late Nietzsche and the longed-for coup against the 'social monarchy' of Wilhelm II and stoÌ8cker -- 'Anti-anti-semitism' and the extension to Christians and 'anti-semites' of the anti-socialist laws -- 'New party of life', eugenics and 'annihilation of millions of deformed' -- 'Metaphor', 'anticipation' and 'translatability of languages' -- Politics and epistemology between liberalism and 'aristocratic radicalism' -- Otium et bellum: aristocratic distinction and the struggle against democracy -- Social Darwinism, eugenics and colonial massacres -- Philosophers, historians and sociologists: the conflict of interpretations -- Aristocratic radicalism, pan-European elite and anti-semitism -- Culture in search of its slaves: from the late nineteenth century anti-democratic reaction to nazism -- Transformations of Aryan mythology, condemnation of the revolutionary conspiracy and the formation of anti-semitism -- A philosopher totus politicus -- How to challenge two millennia of history - anti-dogmatism, and dogmatism of aristocratic radicalism -- From suprahistorical myth to the opening of new perspectives for historical research -- The radical aristocrat and the great moralist -- Crisis of the western myth of origin and of imperial universalism -- Individualism and holism, inclusion and exclusion: the liberal tradition, Nietzsche and the history of the West. |
| Abstract |
"Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work that constitutes the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking - his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics - he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche's works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Losurdo, Domenico. Nietzsche, the aristocratic rebel Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004270947 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019036347 |
| ISBN | 9789004270954 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
