Nietzsche and Political Thought by Keith Ansell Pearson -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Series Title Contents Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Nietzsche, Genealogy and Justice

1 Origins of justice 2 Power and the feeling of power 3 Rights, power and the feeling of power 4 Democracy and the state 5 Democracy and justice 6 Democracy to come Notes Bibliography

2 Nietzsche on Truth, Honesty and Responsibility in Politics

1 The problem of truth in politics 2 From truth to a political ontology of perspectival honesty 3 From political mendacity to genuine responsibility Notes Bibliography

3 Nietzsche, Naturalism and Law

1 Nietzsche as law’s enemy: Vining and Habermas 2 Naturalism, nature and law 3 The primitive community as the space of law 4 Normative violence, law, the state and the divided self Notes Bibliography

1 Introduction 2 Movements as historical 3 Movements as psychological 4 Conclusion Notes Bibliography

5 Nietzsche’s Freedom: The Art of Agonic Perfectionism

1 Art, agency and autonomy 2 Agonism, perfectionism and will to power Note Bibliography

1 Introduction 2 Agonistic democratic theory and Nietzsche’s ontology of conflict 3 Rethinking agonistic theory: Nietzsche’s constructive alternatives Notes Bibliography

7 Spinoza vs. Kant: Have I Been Understood?

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8 Kairos and Chronos: Nietzsche and the Time of the Multitude

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9 Nietzsche and the Engine of Politics

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10 Nietzsche’s Political Therapy

1 Nietzsche as philosophical therapist 2 Smith’s ethics of sociability, Nietzsche’s ethical perfectionism 3 From ethical perfection to bio-political transformation 4 Conclusion Notes Bibliography

11 Nietzsche’s Great Politics of the Event

12 Nietzsche’s Immoralism and the Advent of ‘Great Politics’

1 The era of ‘great politics’ 2 Nietzsche’s immoralism 3 The self-overcoming of morality 4 ‘Christian truthfulness’ vs. ‘Christian morality’ 5 Nietzsche’s self-overcoming 6 The will to truth 7 Conclusion Notes Bibliography

13 Nietzsche, Badiou, and Grand Politics: An Antiphilosophical Reading

1 Badiou with Klossowski? 2 What is antiphilosophy? 3 Toward the antiphilosophical act 4 Breaking in two the history of the world 5 The antiphilosophical temptation: Philosophy as event Notes Bibliography

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