Nietzsche Contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political ThoughtKeith Ansell-Pearson's book is an important and very welcome contribution to a neglected area of research: 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. Nietzsche contra Rousseau 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. |
Contents
Nietzsche contra Rousseau | 19 |
Rousseau as educator | 25 |
a politics of Ressentiment | 31 |
Nietzsche on the Machiavellianism of power | 38 |
Rousseau and European Nihilism | 43 |
Conclusion | 49 |
Civilization and its discontents Rousseau on mans natural goodness | 53 |
Rousseau contra Hobbes | 54 |
Master Morality and Slave Morality | 125 |
The Sovereign Individual | 134 |
Bad Conscience | 142 |
Conclusion | 149 |
Zarathustras descent on a teaching of redemption | 152 |
The Overman | 157 |
The way of the creator | 162 |
Redemption | 166 |
Amourdesoi Amourpropre and Pitie | 62 |
Morality | 69 |
Conclusion | 75 |
Squaring the circle Rousseau on the General Will | 78 |
the General Will | 84 |
Law and the legislator | 95 |
Conclusion | 99 |
Nietzsches Dionysian drama on the destiny of the soul on the Genealogy of Morals | 102 |
Introduction to the argument of the Genealogy of Morals | 112 |
Nietzsche and Ursprung | 119 |
The Vision and the Riddle | 176 |
The Return of the Overman | 185 |
How one becomes what one is | 194 |
Bending the bow great politics or the problem of the legislator | 200 |
Conclusion | 225 |
Notes | 232 |
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