Nietzsche contra Rousseau

A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought

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by Keith Ansell-Pearson

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published July 1996, 302 pages, paper

ISBN 0521575699

Keith Ansell-Pearson on Nietzsche's political thought. Nietzsche is widely regarded as a significant moral philosopher, but his political thinking has often been dismissed as either impossibly individualistic or dangerously totalitarian. Ansell-Pearson takes a serious look at Nietzsche as political thinker and relates his political ideas to the dominant traditions of modern political thought. In particular, the nature of Nietzsche's dialogue with the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is examined, in order to demonstrate Rousseau's crucial role in Nietzsche's understanding of modernity and its discontents.