'… brilliant and provocatively insightful … a fantastic book …' Paul Krause, Merion West
1. Escape to Lake Bienne: how Rousseau turned the world upside down; 2. Redeeming modernity: the erotic ascent of Hegel's phenomenology; 3. The will to power and the politics of greatness: Nietzsche's revelation; 4. The distant command of the Greeks: Heidegger and the community of destiny; 5. The fragmented legacy of the Philosophy of Freedom; Bibliography; Index.