An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker

The Perfect Nihilist

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by Keith Ansell-Pearson

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published May 1994, 263 pages, paper

ISBN 0521427215

An introduction to the topic of Nietzsche's politics, tracing the development of his thinking and confronting directly his appropriation by the Nazis. The key ideas of the will to power, eternal return and the overman are discussed and all Nietzsche's major works analyzed in detail.

Contents:Chronology; Introduction; Note on Nietzsche and Liberalism; PART 1 THE QUESTION OF NIETZSCHE, 1. A question of style? An introduction to reading Nietzsche; 2. Nietzsche~s legacy; PART 2 ANCIENTS AND MODERNS, 3. Nietzsche and the Greeks: culture versus politics; 4. Nietzsche on modern politics; PART 3 MAN AND OVERMAN, 5. Zarathustra~s teaching of the overman; 6. A genealogy of morals; 7. O humanity! Nietzsche on great politics; PART 4 THE QUESTION OF NIETZSCHE NOW, 8. Nietzsche and contemporary Liberalism; 9. Nietzsche and feminism; 10. The perfect nihilist.