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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Art, Power and Knowledge
Chapter 1 - Machiavelli’s Ass and the Poetics of Political Life
Introduction
The Freedom to Follow One’s Own Nature
Political Life and One’s Nature
The Trials of Politics
Ingratitude in Human Life
Human Beings in the Cosmos
Fearing Fortune
The Beauty of Eros
The Aesthetic Redemption of Life
The Choice to be Made: Political Agon or Contentment
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 2 - Tragic Machiavelli: The Agon of the Heroic Prince
Introduction
The Nature of The Prince
The Princely Hero
To Have “One’s Own Arms:” The Value of Independence
Acquisition: To Make Things Your Own
Appearance and Artfulness: When You Do Not Have, Seem to Have
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 3 - Nietzsche’s Machiavellism
Introduction
Man in a Broken World
Agonism and Moral Philosophy
In Search of Permanence: Time and Durability
The Absurd Comedy of an Unstable Self
Subjectivity and Perspective
Of Virtù and Will to Power
Virtù as Aesthetic Action
Will to Power as Virtuoso Action
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4 - A Machiavellian Zarathustra: The Aesthetic Politics of Value Creation
Introduction
Excursus: Writing Tragedy, Writing Comedy
Zarathustra’s Machiavellian Turn
Zarathustra’s “Golden Ass”: Book Four and Its Meaning
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 5 - The Form of Aesthetic Political Theory
Introduction
Plato’s Apparent Assault on Art
What is “Art”?
From Mimesis to Imitation
Deception
Representation and Misrepresentation
Emotion and Expression
Form
The Politics of Taste
Aesthetic Political Theory and Ethics?
Notes
Chapter 6 - Aesthetic Political Theory and Modernity
Introduction
Plato’s Artistry
Heidegger and the Politicized Work of Art
Arendt’s Blurred Kantian Lens
The Art of Esoteric Writing: Strauss and the Aesthetics of Politics
The Fragility of Beauty: Liberalism and the Aesthetic
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion - Spectacular Politics
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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