{"product_id":"friedrich-nietzsche-and-the-politics-of-history-hardback-9780521880565","title":"Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History (Hardback) 9780521880565","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFriedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book explores Nietzsche's understanding of modern political culture and his position in the history of modern political thought.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristian J. Emden (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521880565, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 May 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e412 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.79 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'[Emden] aims, through a contextualist reading, to reconstruct the political content that Nietzsche's writings would have been understood to have in their contemporary context. At the same time, he holds that we can thereby recover a distinctive and compelling contribution to political thought. … Emden's detailed, scholarly, and original interpretation brings to light important themes in Nietzsche's work.' Tamsin Shaw, Perspectives on Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Failure of Neohumanism: 1. Philologists, liberals, and the nation\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Austro-Prussian War in Leipzig\u003cbr\u003e 3. The demands of history\u003cbr\u003e 4. Toward a cautious materialism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Teleology and the laws of history\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Formation of Imperial Germany, Seen from Basel: 1. Intellectual culture in Basel\u003cbr\u003e 2. The practice of cultural history\u003cbr\u003e 3. The need for philosophical education\u003cbr\u003e 4. The 'German Spirit' and the Franco-Prussian War\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Crisis of Historical Culture: 1. The crisis of historicism\u003cbr\u003e 2. What is orientation in history?\u003cbr\u003e 3. The political mobilization of myth\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'The Soul of the Antiquarian'\u003cbr\u003e 5. The impossible critical historian\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Political Lessons from Cultural Anthropology: 1. The view from outside\u003cbr\u003e 2. Lessons from anthropology\u003cbr\u003e 3. Metaphor, myth and cultural reality\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Survivals': religion and the state\u003cbr\u003e 5. Political realism and the 'Free Spirit'\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Geneology, Naturalism and the Political: 1. The path to geneology\u003cbr\u003e 2. A natural history of moral communities\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sovereign individuals and the ethic of responsibility\u003cbr\u003e 4. The task of geneology\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'To translate humanity back into nature'\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. The Idea of Europe and the Limits of Geneology: 1. 'The creation of the European individual'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Beyond the modern nation state\u003cbr\u003e 3. Political realities in Imperial Germany\u003cbr\u003e 4. Modernity and the limits of geneology.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265329352984,"sku":"9780521880565","price":64.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521880565i.jpg?v=1692021740","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/friedrich-nietzsche-and-the-politics-of-history-hardback-9780521880565","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}