Friedrich Nietzsche and the politics of history

Emden, Christian J

Friedrich Nietzsche and the politics of history - New York Cambridge University Press 2008 - xvi,386p. 24 cm. - Ideas in context ; 88 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-365) and index.

Introduction -- The failure of neo-humanism -- Philologists, liberals, and the nation -- The Austro-Prussian War in Leipzig -- The demands of history -- Toward a cautious materialism -- Teleology and the laws of history -- The formation of imperial Germany, seen from Basel -- Intellectual culture in Basel -- The practice of cultural history -- The need for philosophical education -- The "German spirit" and the Franco-Prussian War -- The crisis of historical culture -- The crisis of historicism -- What is orientation in history? -- The political mobilization of myth -- "The soul of the antiquarian" -- The impossible critical historian -- Political lessons from cultural anthropology -- The view from outside -- Lessons from anthropology -- Metaphor, myth, and cultural reality -- "Survivals" - religion and the nation state -- Political realism and the "free spirit" -- Genealogy, naturalism, and the political -- The path to genealogy -- A natural history of moral communities -- Sovereign individuals and the ethic of responsibility -- The task of genealogy -- "To translate humanity back into nature" -- The idea of Europe and the limits of genealogy -- "The creation of the European individual" -- Beyond the modern nation state -- Political realities in imperial Germany -- Modernity and the limits of genealogy.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.


Political science--History--Germany--19th century.
Political science--Philosophy.
Political culture.

JC233.N52 / E53 2008

320.01 / EM-F

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