Politics After Morality

Toward a Nietzschean Left
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-12227-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

This book completes the project, begun in Nietzsche’s Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy, of critically reconstructing a Nietzschean left politics. Nietzsche's incompatibilist ideal of amor fati requires reconceiving legitimacy as the breeding of a people whose material conditions enable it to affirm its social order. Justice is founded in a future, higher type’s right to exist against present individuals who internalize the contradictions of past societies. In opposition to Nietzsche’s self-undermining aristocratism, this right can only be realized through a universal promotion of the pluralistic unity of the manifold soul, secured by an equally manifold form of democracy. Against the covert aristocratism of liberal proceduralism, authentic democracy produces a true people grounded in shared, concrete happiness, requiring a comprehensive egalitarianism maintained by a permanent socialist state and achievable only through a populist, coalitional politics across identities that radically transforms the material conditions of our shared social life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miyasaki, Donovan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- Part I Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Against Aristocracy.- 2. Nietzsche’s Immoralist Theory of State Legitimacy.- 3. Nietzsche’s All Too Moralist Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism.- Part II Justice Beyond Exchange.- 4. Nietzsche’s Failed Theory of Aristocratic Justice.- 5. An Immoralist Theory of Right: Doing Justice to the Drives.- Part III Democracy After Liberty.- 6. An Immoralist Theory of Peoples: Nobility as Collective Agency.- 7. An Immoralist Theory of Democracy as the Production of a People.- Part IV Egalitarianism After Morality.- 8. An Immoralist Theory of Egalitarianism: Toward a Nietzschean Theory of Socialism.- 9. Conclusion: Toward a Nietzschean Socialist Politics. 

Über Autor(innen)

Donovan Miyasaki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University, USA. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy (2022).