Political Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche: An Edited Anthology

ISBN-13: 9780230537736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 340 str.

Frank Cameron; Don Dombowsky

Opis

This anthology brings together for the first time selections of Nietzsche's political commentary found throughout his corpus, including some never before translated writings from his youth. The texts were carefully chosen to highlight Nietzsche's political views and arranged chronologically to allow the reader to trace the development of Nietzsche's political thought from his youth to his final writings of 1888. In their introduction and prefaces, Frank Cameron and Don Dombowsky insightfully demonstrate that Nietzsche was an observer of and responded to the political events which shaped the Bismarckian era. In the past two decades Nietzsche's political thought has received increasing attention, yet only rarely has there been any attempt to situate it historically. This anthology thus provides an essential resource for understanding Nietzsche's political ideas as they were stirred by the conflicts of this turbulent era.

Recenzje

'At a moment when Friedrich Nietzsche's writings have returned to the forefront of much recent political thought, and interest in his ideas has grown rapidly on both sides of the Atlantic, this timely new edition of Nietzsche's political writings is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most influential post-Enlightenment philosophers. Covering Nietzsche's political writings and statements almost in their entirety from his early years as a pupil and student to his later genealogy of morality this volume situates the development of Nietzsche's political ideas in their proper historical context. Moreover, Frank Cameron and Don Dombowsky have done an excellent job at correcting the still widely-held view of Nietzsche as an anti-political cultural aesthete or literary aphorist. In the writings collected in this volume we see Nietzsche deeply interested in a critical understanding of the modern state, the affairs of civil society, the possible pitfalls of democracy, and the projects of Empire that marked nineteenth-century Europe. Nietzsche's responses to the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of Napoleon III, British liberalism, Bismarck's authoritarian Germany, and the rise of anti-Semitism provide many valuable lessons for contemporary political philosophy indeed, they show how current debates about the future of democracy and civil society continue to be shaped by problems that first emerged in the nineteenth century.' Christian J. Emden, Rice University, USA

'With this comprehensive selection of texts, Frank Cameron and Don Dombowsky have made an important contribution to our understanding of the political dimensions in Nietzsche's philosophy. Especially the little known juvenilia and excerpts from the (still untranslated) Nachlaß throw new light on Nietzsche's continuous preoccupation with the national and the social question. In a very substantial introduction, the editors set these writings in their historical contexts and offer a powerful challenge to the still widely held belief that Nietzsche was an 'unpolitical' thinker.' - Martin A. Ruehl, University of Cambridge, UK.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Schulpforta, 1862 Agonistic Politics, 1871-1874 The Free Spirit, 1878-1880 The Campaign Against Morality, 1881-1885 Aristocratic Radical, 1886-1887 The Antichrist, 1888 Notes Selected Glossary of Names Selected Bibliography Index

O autorze

FRANK CAMERON teaches Political Theory at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is the author of Nietzsche and the 'Problem' of Morality. 
 
DON DOMBOWSKY lectures in Philosophy at Bishop's University, Canada. He is the author of Neitzsche's Machiavellian Politics and has published articles in the Journal of Nietzsche Studies and Nietzsche-Studien.