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This book completes the project, begun in Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy, of critically reconstructing a Nietzschean left politics. Nietzsche's incompatibilist ideal of amor fati requires reconceiving legitimacy as the breeding of a people whose material conditions enable it to affirm its social order. Justice is founded in a future, higher type's right to exist against present individuals who internalize the contradictions of past societies. In opposition to Nietzsche's self-undermining aristocratism, this right can only be realized through a universal promotion of the pluralistic unity of the manifold soul, secured by an equally manifold form of democracy. Against the covert aristocratism of liberal proceduralism, authentic democracy produces a true people grounded in shared, concrete happiness, requiring a comprehensive egalitarianism maintained by a permanent socialist state and achievable only through a populist, coalitional politics across identities that radically transforms the material conditions of our shared social life.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- Part I Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Against Aristocracy.- 2. Nietzsche's Immoralist Theory of State Legitimacy.- 3. Nietzsche's All Too Moralist Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism.- Part II Justice Beyond Exchange.- 4. Nietzsche's Failed Theory of Aristocratic Justice.- 5. An Immoralist Theory of Right: Doing Justice to the Drives.- Part III Democracy After Liberty.- 6. An Immoralist Theory of Peoples: Nobility as Collective Agency.- 7. An Immoralist Theory of Democracy as the Production of a People.- Part IV Egalitarianism After Morality.- 8. An Immoralist Theory of Egalitarianism: Toward a Nietzschean Theory of Socialism.- 9. Conclusion: Toward a Nietzschean Socialist Politics.
About the author
Donovan Miyasaki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University, USA. He is the author of
Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy (2022).
