Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of

This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding of modern political culture and his position in the history of modern political thought. Surveying Nietzsche's entire intellectual career from his years as a student in Bonn and Leipzig during the 1860s to his genealogical project of the 1880s, Christian Emden contributes to a historically informed discussion of Nietzsche's response to the political predicaments of modernity, and sheds new light on the intellectual and political culture in Germany as the ideals of the Enlightenment gave way to the demands of the modern nation state. This is a distinguished addition to the series of Ideas in Context, and a major reassessment of a philosopher and aphorist whose stature among post-enlightenment European thinkers is now almost unrivalled.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations and translations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The failure of neo-humanism	p. 17
Philologists, liberals, and the nation	p. 20
The Austro-Prussian War in Leipzig	p. 36
The demands of history	p. 42
Toward a cautious materialism	p. 53
Teleology and the laws of history	p. 64
The formation of Imperial Germany, seen from Basel	p. 79
Intellectual culture in Basel	p. 80
The practice of cultural history	p. 82
The need for philosophical education	p. 102
The "German spirit" and the Franco-Prussian War	p. 112
The crisis of historical culture	p. 129
The crisis of historicism	p. 130
What is orientation in history?	p. 140
The political mobilization of myth	p. 150
"The soul of the antiquarian"	p. 156
The impossible critical historian	p. 163
Political lessons from cultural anthropology	p. 174
The view from outside	p. 175
Lessons from anthropology	p. 181
Metaphor, myth, and cultural reality	p. 190
"Survivals" - religion and the nation state	p. 199
Political realism and the "Free spirit"	p. 216
Genealogy, naturalism, and the political	p. 229
The path to genealogy	p. 230
A natural history of moral communities	p. 237
Sovereign individuals and the ethic of responsibility	p. 248
The task of genealogy	p. 260
"To translate humanity back into nature"	p. 269
The idea of Europe and the limits of genealogy	p. 286
"The creation of the European individual"	p. 287
Beyond the modern nation state	p. 299
Political realities in Imperial Germany	p. 308
Modernity and the limits of genealogy	p. 316
Bibliography	p. 324
Index	p. 366
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