ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Studies in Philosophy SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (200 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442682412
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Sovereignty of JoyDDC classification:
  • 743.8
LOC classification:
  • JC233.N52 M356 1997
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.