Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of TransfigurationFriedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration provides a comprehensive analysis of the politics that are implicit and explicit in Nietzsche's work. Tracy B. Strong's discussion shows that Nietzsche's writings are of a piece and have as their common goal a politics of transfiguration: a politics that seeks radical change in how human beings live and act in the modern Western world. This edition includes a new introduction that demonstrates how the styles of Nietzsche's writings expand our notions of democratic politics and democratic understanding. |
Contents
On Approaching Nietzsche | 1 |
The Necessity and Possibility of Truth | 20 |
The Epistemology of Nihilism | 53 |
The Basic Trend of Morality | 87 |
Who Is Dionysian? The Problem of the Immoralist | 108 |
What Is Dionysian? Nietzsche and the Greeks | 135 |
Nietzsche | 186 |
The Will to Power | 218 |
The Doctrine of Eternal Return | 260 |
Perspectivism in Nietzsche | 294 |
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