Nietzsche''s Great Politics

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic theory or continental philosophy, Hugo Drochon argues that Nietzsche's political ideas must first be understood in light of Bismarck's policies, in particular his "Great Politics," which transformed the international politics of its day

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Hugo Drochon is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political thought and a postdoctoral research fellow at CRASSH, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, at the University of Cambridge.

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Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the

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"Extraordinary book . . . . Drochon masterfully articulates a credible account of Nietzsche’s political action programme. . . . [A] rich, luminous and comprehensive argument."---Renato Cristi, History of Political Thought

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"This excellent, illuminating book deserves to become a standard work for all scholars and students of Nietzsche, and it will be indispensable to scholars of his political thought. Hugo Drochon provides a great deal of new insight into Nietzsche's work as well as its relevance in the contemporary world."--Tamsin Shaw, New York University

Product details

• Authors: Hugo Drochon, Drochon Hugo
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2016
• EAN: 9780691166346
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16634-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > German idealism, 19th century; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought