Nietzsche and political thought

Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction / Keith Ansell-Pearson -- 1. Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Justice / Paul Patton -- 2. Nietzsche on Truth, Honesty, and Responsibility in Politics / Rosalyn Diprose -- 3. Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Law / Peter R. Sedgwick -- 4. Movements and Motivations: Nietzsche and the Invention of Political Psychology / Robert Guay -- 5. Nietzsche's Freedom: The Art of Agonic Perfectionism / David Owen -- 6. Reassessing Radical Democratic Theory in the light of Nietzsche's Ontology of Conflict / Herman Siemens -- 7. Spinoza vs. Kant: Have I Been Understood? / Alan D. Schrift -- 8. Kairos and Chronos: Nietzsche and the Time of the Multitude / Gary Shapiro -- 9. Nietzsche and the Engine of Politics / Nandita Biswas Mellamphy -- 10. Nietzsche's Political Therapy / Michael Ure -- 11. Nietzsche's Politics of the Event / Vanessa Lemm -- 12. Nietzsche's Immoralism and the Advent of "Great Politics" / Daniel Conway -- 13. Nietzsche, Badiou, and Grand Politics: An Antiphilosophical Reading / Bruno Bosteels -- Index.

2 Smith's ethics of sociability, Nietzsche's ethical perfectionism3 From ethical perfection to bio-political transformation; 4 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 11 Nietzsche's Great Politics of the Event; 1 Introduction: Small and great politics of the event; 2 The historical agent: Eternalizing the historical becoming of life; 3 The genius and the philosopher in Schopenhauer as Educator: Turning freedom (Becoming) into necessity (Being); 4 The great human being in Nietzsche's late work (BGE and TI): Loving necessity; 5 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

Nietzsche challenges the tenets of received political wisdom in a number of ways and his thinking contains resources for revitalising political thinking. Nietzsche and Political Thought offers fresh insights into Nietzsche's relevance for contemporary political thought in light of recent advances in research in the field and key topics in contemporary theorising about politics. An international team of leading scholars provide vital new perspectives on both core and novel topics including justice, democratic theory, biopolitics, the multitude, political psychology, and the Enlightenment. In sp