Buch, Englisch, Band 200, 1054 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1792 g
Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
Buch, Englisch, Band 200, 1054 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1792 g
Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series
ISBN: 978-90-04-27094-7
Verlag: Brill
Translated by Gregor Benton. With an Introduction by Harrison Fluss.
Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002.
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Introduction to the English-Language Edition
Harrison Fluss
Part 1 Nietzsche in His Time: In Struggle against Socratism and Judaism
1 The Crisis of Culture from Socrates to the Paris Commune
1 The Birth of Tragedy as a Re-interpretation of Hellenism?
2 Tragic Hellenism as Antidote to ‘Weak’ Modernity
3 The Paris Commune and the Threat of a ‘Horrifying Destruction’ of Culture
4 The Suicide of Tragic Hellenism as Metaphor for the Suicide of the ancien régime
5 From the Anti-Napoleonic Wars to The Birth of Tragedy
6 The Young Nietzsche’s Adherence to German National Liberalism
7 ‘German Pessimism’, ‘Serious View of the World’, ‘Tragic View of the World’
8 The ‘German Spirit’ as ‘Saviour’ and ‘Redeemer’ of Zivilisation
9 ‘Optimism’, ‘Happiness’ and Revolutionary Drift: Nietzsche’s Radicalism
10 An Anti-Pelagian Reconquest of Christianity?
11 Christianity as Subversive and a ‘Religion of the Learned’
12 Eva, Persephone and Prometheus: The Reinterpretation of Original Sin
13 ‘Greek Serenity’, ‘Sensualism’ and Socialism
14 The Apolline, the Dionysiac and the Social Question
15 Athens and Jerusalem; Apollo and Jesus, Dionysus and Apollo
16 Art, Politics and Kulturkritik
17 An Appeal for a ‘Struggle against Civilisation’
18 Manifesto of the Party of the Tragic View of the World
19 Universal History, Universal Judgement, Divine Justice, Theodicy, Cosmodicy
2 Tradition, Myth and the Critique of Revolution
1 ‘Prejudice’ and ‘Instinct’: Burke and Nietzsche
2 Hubris of Reason and ‘Neocriticistic’ Reaction
3 The Radicalisation of Neo-criticism: Truth as Metaphor
4 Human Rights and Anthropocentrism
5 ‘Metaphysics of Genius’ and Cultural Elitism
6 The ‘Doric State’ as Dictatorship in the Service of the Production of Genius
3 Socratism and ‘Present-Day Judaism’
1 Aryan ‘Tragic Profundity’ and the ‘Despicable Jewish Phrase’
2 Socratism and the Jewish Press in the Struggle against Germanness
3 Judaism in Music and in The Birth of Tragedy
4 Dionysian Germany and the ‘Treacherous Dwarfs’
5 Alexandrianism, Judaism and the ‘Jewish-Roman’ World
6 On the Threshold of a Conspiracy Theory
4 The Founding of the Second Reich, and Conflicting Myths of Origin
1 In Search of Hellenism and a volkstümlich Germanness
2 Greeks, Christians, Germans and Indo-Europeans
3 Nietzsche and the Greco-Germanic Myth of Origin
4 Imitation of France and Germany’s Abdication of its Mission
5 Social Conflict and the National-Liberal Recovery of the ‘Old Faith’
6 The Young Nietzsche, the Struggle against ‘Secularisation’ and the Defence of the ‘Old Faith’
7 ‘Secularisation’ and Crisis of Myths of Origin
5 From the ‘Judaism’ of Socrates to the ‘Judaism’ of Strauss
1 Myths of Origin and Anti-Semitism
2 Strauss, Judaism and the Threat to German Language and Identity
3 ‘Jewish International’ and ‘Aesthetic International’
4 Superficial Culture [Gebildetheit] and Judaism
5 Philistinism and Judaism
6 Judeophobia, Anti-Semitism and Theoretical and Artistic Surplus in Nietzsche and Wagner
Part 2 Nietzsche in His Time: Four Successive Approaches to the Critique of Revolution
6 The ‘Solitary Rebel’ Breaks with Tradition and the ‘Popular Community’
1 Prussia’s ‘Popular Enlightenment’ as Betrayal of the ‘True German Spirit’
2 The Germanic Myth of Origin and the Condemnation of Hegel
3 Delegitimisation of Modernity and Diagnosis of the ‘Historical Sickness’
4 From the ‘Christian’ Critique of the Philosophy of History to the Critique of the Philosophy of History as Secularised Christianity
5 Philosophy of History, Modernity and Massification
6 Philosophy of History, Élitism and the Return of Anthropocentrism
7 Cult of Tradition and Pathos of Counterrevolutionary Action
8 ‘Schopenhauer’s Human Being’ as Antagonist of ‘Rousseau’s Human Being’ and of Revolution
9 Two Intellectual Types: The ‘Deferential Bum’ and the ‘Solitary Rebel’
10 Schopenhauer, Wagner and ‘Consecration’ for the ‘Battle’
7 The ‘Solitary Rebel’ Becomes an ‘Enlightener’
1 The Gründerjahre, Nietzsche’s Disenchantment, and the Banishing of the Spectres of Greece
2 Taking One’s Distance from Germanomania and the Break with the German National Liberals
3 Critique of Chauvinism and the Beginning of the ‘Enlightenment’
4 The Deconstruction of the Christian-Germanic Myth of Origin
5 The Re-interpretation of the History of Germany: Condemnations and Rehabilitations
6 Europe, Asia and (Reinterpreted) Greece
7 Enlightenment, Judaism and the Unity of Europe
8 Voltaire against Rousseau: Reinterpretation and Rehabilitation of the Enlightenment
9 Nietzsche and the Anti-revolutionary Enlightenment
10 The ‘Wandering’ Philosopher
11 Nietzsche in the School of Strauss
12 Biography, Psychology and History in the ‘Enlightenment’ turn
8 From Anti-revolutionary ‘Enlightenment’ to the Encounter with the Great Moralists
1 Distrust of Moral Sentiments and Delegitimisation of the Appeal to ‘Social Justice’
2 Plebeian Pressure, Moral Sentiments and ‘Moral Enlightenment’
3 The ‘Saint’ and the Revolutionary ‘Martyr’: Altruism and Narcissism
4 History, Science and Morality
5 Morality and Revolution
6 Expanding the Range of Social Conflict and Encountering the Moralists: ‘Good Conscience’, ‘Enchantment’ and the ‘Evil Eye’
9 Between German National Liberalism and European Liberalism
1 Representative Organs, Universal Suffrage and Partitocracy
2 From the Statism of the Greek Polis to Socialism: Nietzsche, Constant and Tocqueville
3 Political Realism and Antiquitising Utopia
4 Nietzsche, European Liberalism and the Complaint about the Crisis of Culture
5 The Mediocrity of the Modern World and the Spectre of European ‘chinoiserie’
6 Jews, Colonial Peoples and the Mob: Inclusion and Exclusion
7 The Unity and the Peace of Europe and the Enduring Value of War
10 The Poet of the ‘People’s Community’, the ‘Solitary Rebel’, the Anti-revolutionary ‘Enlightener’ and the Theorist of ‘Aristocratic Radicalism’
1 From ‘Enlightenment’ Turn to Immoralist Turn
2 Anti-socialist Laws, ‘Practical Christianity’ and Wilhelm I’s ‘Indecency’
3 From Critique of the Social State to Critique of the ‘Representative Constitution’
4 ‘[W]e Cannot Help Being Revolutionaries’
5 The Shadow of Suspicion Falls on the Moralists
6 Hegel and Nietzsche: Two Opposing Critiques of the Moral Worldview
7 From Universal Guilt to the Innocence of Becoming
8 Four Stages in Nietzsche’s Development
11 ‘Aristocratic Radicalism’ and the ‘New Party of Life’
1 The ‘New Party of Life’
2 ‘New Nobility’ and ‘New Slavery’
3 Aristocratic Distinction and Social Apartheid
4 Aristocracy, Bourgeoisie and Intellectuals
5 From Cultural Elitism to Caesarism
6 Feminist Movement and ‘Universal Uglification’
7 A ‘New Warrior Age’
Part 3 Nietzsche in His Time: Theory and Practice of Aristocratic Radicalism
12 Slavery in the United States and in the Colonies and the Struggle between Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
1 The Chariot of Culture and Slavery
2 Nietzsche, Slavery and the Anti-abolitionist Polemic
3 Between Reintroduction of Classical Slavery and ‘New Slavery’
4 Labour and servitus in the Liberal Tradition
5 The American Civil War, the Debate on the Role of Labour and the Special Nature of Germany
6 Otium and Labour: Freedom and Slavery of the Ancients and the Moderns
7 Marx, Nietzsche and ‘Extra Work’
8 Race of Masters and Race of Servants: Boulainvilliers, Gobineau, Nietzsche
13 ‘Hierarchy’, Great Chain of Being and Great Chain of Pain
1 The Chariot of Culture and Compassion for the Slaves
2 The Chariot of Culture and the Resentment of the Slaves
3 Misery of the Poor and Responsibility and Boredom of the Rich
4 Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Between ‘Tragic’ Vision of Life and Relapse into Harmonisation
14 The ‘Uneducated Masses’, the ‘Freethinker’ and the ‘Free Spirit’: Critique and Meta-critique of Ideology
1 Chains and Flowers: the Critique of Ideology between Marx and Nietzsche
2 Ideology as Legitimation of and Challenge to the Existing Social Order
3 Direct Violence and Form of Universality
4 From National-Liberal Reticence to the Duplicity of Aristocratic Radicalism
5 Religions as ‘Means of Breeding and Education’ in the Hands of the Ruling Classes
6 The City, the Newspaper and the Plebeians
7 ‘Free Spirits’ versus ‘Freethinkers’
15 From the Critique of the French Revolution to the Critique of the Jewish-Christian Revolution
1 Revolutionary Crisis and Acceleration of Historical Time
2 From the French Revolution to the Reformation, from the Reformation to the Christian and Jewish ‘Priestly Agitators’
3 Christianity and Revolution
4 Denunciation of the Revolution, Critique of ‘Hope’ and Critique of the Unilinear View of Time
5 Doctrine of the Eternal Return and Liquidation of Anthropocentrism (from Judaism to the French Revolution)
6 Aristocratic Radicalism and Renewed Expulsion of Judaism to Asia
7 The Struggle against the Jewish-Christian Tradition and the Reconquest of the West
16 The Long Cycle of Revolution and the Curse of Nihilism
1 Three Waves of ‘Nihilism’
2 ‘Total Revolution’ and Political, ‘Metaphysical’ and ‘Poetic’ Nihilism
3 Possible Attitudes towards Nihilism
4 Nihilistic Rebelliousness as Critique and Meta-critique
5 Unease, Charm and the Curse of Nihilism in Nietzsche
6 Total Revolution, Attack on the ‘Great Economy of the Whole’ and Nihilism
7 Total Negation, Nihilism and Madness
8 A Polemical Category
9 At the Source of Nihilism: Ruling Classes or Subaltern Classes?
17 The Late Nietzsche and the Longed-for Coup against the ‘Social Monarchy’ of Wilhelm II and Stöcker
1 Germany as a Hotbed of Revolutionary Contagion
2 Between Friedrich III and Wilhelm II
3 The Emancipation of the ‘Black Domestic Slaves’ and Wilhelm II, the ‘Brown Idiot’
4 The ‘Social Monarchy’ of Stöcker and Wilhelm II and the Counterrevolution Hoped for by Bismarck
5 ‘Anti-German League’ and Coup against Wilhelm II
6 Big Jewish Capital, Prussian ‘Aristocratic Officers’ and Eugenic Cross-breeding
7 ‘Aristocratic Radicalism’ and the Party of Friedrich III
18 ‘Anti-Anti-Semitism’ and the Extension to Christians and ‘Anti-Semites’ of the Anti-socialist Laws
1 Anti-Jewish Polemic of the Christians and Anti-Christian Polemic of the Jews
2 Stöcker and Disraeli: the Linking of Inclusion and Exclusion between Germany and Britain
3 Germany, France, Russia and the Jews
4 Nietzsche and the Three
