Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche An Edited Anthology [Hardcover]

Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche is an anthology that gathers together, for the first time, the political commentary and writings found throughout Nietzsche's corpus. Included is an historical introduction which demonstrates that Nietzsche was an observer of and responded to the political events which defined the Bismarckian era.Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Schulpforta, 1862 Agonistic Politics, 1871-1874 The Free Spirit, 1878-1880 The Campaign Against Morality, 1881-1885 Aristocratic Radical, 1886-1887 The Antichrist, 1888 Notes Selected Glossary of Names Selected Bibliography Index

'At a moment when Friedrich Nietzsche's writings have returned to the forefront of much recent political thought, and interest in his ideas has grown rapidly on both sides of the Atlantic, this timely new edition of Nietzsche's political writings is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most influential post-Enlightenment philosophers. Covering Nietzsche's political writings and statements almost in their entirety from his early years as a pupil and student to his later genealogy of morality this volume situates the development of Nietzsche's political ideas in their proper historical context. Moreover, Frank Cameron and Don Dombowsky have done an excellent job at correcting the still widely-held view of Nietzsche as an anti-political cultural aesthete or literary aphorist. In the writings collected in this volume we see Nietzsche deeply interested in a critical understanding of the modern state, the affairs of civil society, the possible pitfalls of democracy, and the projects of Empire that marked nineteenth-century Europe. Nietzsche's responses to the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of Napoleon III, British liberalism, Bismarck's authoritarian Germany, and the rise of anti-Semitism provide many valuable lessons for contemporary political philosophy indeed, they show how current debates about the future of democracy and l£/