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The Sovereignty of Joy : Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics.

McIntyre, Alex.

The Sovereignty of Joy : Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (200 pages) - Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series . - Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series .

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Joy, Sovereignty, and Atopia -- 2 Joy in the Actual -- 3 The Seasons of a People: Community and Individuality in the Cycle of Natural Morality -- 4 Hierarchy and the Overman -- 5 Nietzsche Contra Rousseau -- 6 Communion in Joy: Will to Power and Eternal Return in Grand Politics -- 7 The Poetry of the Future -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

In The Sovereignty of Joy, Alex McIntyre suggests that a sense of tragic joy is the legislating experience at the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy. A Dionysian exuberance animates all of Nietzsche's central ideas, which McIntyre argues is the political elaboration of the sovereignty of joy.

9781442682412


Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,-1844-1900-Political and social views.
Joy.


Electronic books.

JC233.N52 M356 1997

743.8

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