Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel : Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet.
Losurdo, Domenico.
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel : Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (1076 pages) - Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.200 . - Historical Materialism Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction to the English-Language Edition (Fluss) -- Part 1. Nietzsche in His Time: In Struggle against Socratism and Judaism -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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' -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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' -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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. Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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' -- Chapter 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'.
In a work that constitutes the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo restores the philosopher's works to their complex nineteenth-century context.
9789004270954
Philosophy, Modern.
Electronic books.
B791 .L678 2019
193
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel : Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (1076 pages) - Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.200 . - Historical Materialism Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction to the English-Language Edition (Fluss) -- Part 1. Nietzsche in His Time: In Struggle against Socratism and Judaism -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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' -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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' -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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. Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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' -- Chapter 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'.
In a work that constitutes the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo restores the philosopher's works to their complex nineteenth-century context.
9789004270954
Philosophy, Modern.
Electronic books.
B791 .L678 2019
193