Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity
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Written in a clear and engaging style, this text demonstrates Nietzsche′s significance as a philosopher and as a political theorist by highlighting his critique of liberalism (in both its philosophical and political forms) and by elaborating the form of ethical and political understanding which his philosophy discloses.
In describing Nietzsche′s diagnosis of the modern condition, this book explains the central aspects of his thought including the will to power, the Overman and amor fati. David Owen traces the relevance of Nietzsche′s philosophy to current debates in political theory and engages with key figures such as MacIntyre, Taylor, Rorty and Rawls. Owen argues that the liberalism of the latter two can be seen as the contemporary expression of Nietzsche′s dystopian vision of the Last Man and develops Nietzsche′s political agonism as articulating a cogent alternative to liberal political theory.
David Owen is lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995).
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Samanta Ashenden Birkbeck College University of London
Paul Connolly University of Ulster
Mitchell Dean Macquarrie University
Peter Jowers University of the West of England
Thomas Osborne University of Bristol
Ralph Schroeder Royal Holloway College University of London
Nigel South University of Essex
Sean Watson University of the West of England
Malcolm Waters University of Tasmania