Price of Vigilance: Attacks on Amer by Keefe Robert Tart Larry

Price of Vigilance: Attacks on Amer by Keefe Robert Tart Larry

A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about Nietzsche] in the past few years.--Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman

Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic theory or continental philosophy, Hugo Drochon argues that Nietzsche's political ideas must first be understood in light of Bismarck's policies, in particular his Great Politics, which transformed the international politics of the late nineteenth century.

Nietzsche's Great Politics shows how Nietzsche made Bismarck's notion his own, enabling him to offer a vision of a unified European political order that was to serve as a counterbalance to both Britain and Russia. This order was to be led by a good European cultural elite whose goal would be to encourage the rebirth of Greek high culture. In relocating Nietzsche's politics to their own time, the book offers not only a novel reading of the philosopher but also a more accurate picture of why his political thought remains so relevant today.

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ISBN 13	9780804119115
ISBN 10	0804119112
Title	Price of Vigilance: Attacks on Amer
Author	Keefe Robert Tart Larry
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2001-06-12
Number of pages	656
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