This book provides a lucid account of Nietzsche's political thought, challenging those contemporary readings of Nietzsche which say that he is apolitical, amenable to liberal democracy or resistant to political codification. The author locates a Machiavellian militancy at the core of Nietzsche's poltical conception, a radical response to the nineteenth century aristocratic liberal critique of democratic society. Nietzsche's principal philosophical doctrines resonate with political responsiblility. Far from being an untimely figure, his political concerns and solutions are shared by many of his own generation. Nietzschean militancy operates in the Bonapartist trajectory: autocratic will in the guise of popular rule.

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART 1: WILLS TO POWER, GENEALOGY: WHICH ONES ARE AT WAR?
Ressentiment
Command and obedience
Aristocracy, the masses and the European worker
The social contract
Freedom and the free spirits
Order of rank
The reverence for institutions
The revaluation of all values: Die große Politik
Political organization and resistance: The new party of life
PART 2: THE RADICAL LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC READING OF NIETZSCHE
The thesis of a discontinuity between Nietzsche's philosophy and his politics
The subject
Perspectivism
Agonism
Pity
PART 3: NIETZSCHE AND ARISTOCRATIC LIBERALISM
Excursus
The state
Egalitarianism
Individualism
PART 4: NIETZSCHE AND MACHIAVELLIANISM
Philosophical parallels
Virtù
Immoralism
The right to rule and the process of legitimation
Control and manipulation
Nietzsche and neo-Machiavellianism (Nietzsche's Machiavellian militancy)
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

DON DOMBOWSKY is currently teaching at Bishop's University, Canada. He has published articles in the Journal of Nietzsche Studies and Nietzsche-Studien.