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Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics

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  • © 2004

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  1. Don Dombowsky
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Don Dombowsky
    Pages 1-8

  3. Wills to Power, Genealogy: Which Ones are at War?

    • Don Dombowsky
    Pages 9-66

  4. The Radical Liberal Democratic Reading of Nietzsche

    • Don Dombowsky
    Pages 67-100

  5. Nietzsche and Aristocratic Liberalism

    • Don Dombowsky
    Pages 101-130

  6. Nietzsche and Machiavellianism

    • Don Dombowsky
    Pages 131-167

  7. Epilogue

    • Don Dombowsky
    Pages 168-182

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 183-221
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In this exciting new study, Don Dombowsky proposes that the foundation of Nietzsche's political thought is the aristocratic liberal critique of democratic society. But he claims that Nietzsche radicalizes this critique through a Machiavellian conversion, based on a reading of The Prince , adapting Machiavellian virtù (the shaping capacity of the legislator), and immoralism (the techniques applied in political rule), and that, consequently, Nietzsche is better understood in relation to the political ideology of the neo-Machiavellian elite theorists of his own generation.

About the author

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

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