Nietzsche's Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality

by C. Schotten

Overview

This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy. The author argues that these two 'halves' of his philosophy help construct a new form of politics for contemporary readers, a possibility of revolution post-Marx.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230613584
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	08/11/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

C. HEIKE SCHOTTEN is Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Body Politics Some Terms: the Body, Health, Will to Power PART I: REVOLUTION Diagnosis: Décadence Treatment: Revolution PART II: CONSERVATION Diagnosis: Emasculation Treatment: Redemption Queering Revolution Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

"Heike Schotten s Nietzsche s Revolution puts some kick into well-heeled concepts - will to power, truth, life, health - as well as taking paths less traveled - "Race-Mixing" and "Queering Revolution." Rather than create a consistent Nietzsche, Schotten attempts to embrace his contradictions to present a balanced Nietzsche." - Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University; and author of Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy s Relation to the Feminine

"Seizing upon the incompatibility of Nietzsche s affirmation of life, his identification of life with woman, and his focusing on the emasculation of culture as the central feature of modernity s decadence, Schotten draws attention to both contradiction and gender as operating at the center of Nietzsche s thinking. Noting that Nietzsche could not ultimately capitalize on his own revolutionary potential, this text makes a persuasive case - one that will excite some and enrage others - that there remain important resources in Nietzsche for a post-Marxist, post-structuralist, and post-heterosexist revolutionary agenda. And, insofar as it demonstrates, perhaps more successfully than any other work to date, that gender deserves attention as a central thematic in Nietzsche's critique of modernity, it should take a place among the important contributions to the secondary literature." - Alan D. Schrift, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College; andeditor, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

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