- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (12 Dec 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415100690
- ISBN-13: 978-0415100694
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,159,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Conway's picture of Nietzsche's plolitcial thought is thoughtful and careful."
-Michael W. Grenke "The Review of Metaphysics, Sept 1998
"Conway makes a convincing and extended case for taking Nietzsche seriously as a moral philosopher, not just a critic of modern morality ... [Conway] addresses the difficult issues directly and in straight-forward prose. An impressive achievement."
-Tracy B. Strong, University of California at San Diego
-Michael W. Grenke "The Review of Metaphysics, Sept 1998
"Conway makes a convincing and extended case for taking Nietzsche seriously as a moral philosopher, not just a critic of modern morality ... [Conway] addresses the difficult issues directly and in straight-forward prose. An impressive achievement."
-Tracy B. Strong, University of California at San Diego
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In this study Daniel Conway shows how Nietzsche's political thinking bears a closer resemblance to the conservative republicanism of his predecessors than to the progressive liberalism of his contemporaries.
The key contemporary figures such as Habermas, Foucault, McIntyre, Rorty and Rawls are also examined in the light of Nietzsche's political legacy. Nietzsche and the Political also draws out important implications for contemporary liberalism and feminist thought, above all showing Nietzsche's continuing relevance to the shape of political thinking today.
The key contemporary figures such as Habermas, Foucault, McIntyre, Rorty and Rawls are also examined in the light of Nietzsche's political legacy. Nietzsche and the Political also draws out important implications for contemporary liberalism and feminist thought, above all showing Nietzsche's continuing relevance to the shape of political thinking today.
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Nietzsche's attempt to retrieve the founding question of politics reflects his conviction that it is the business of politics to legislate the conditions of the permanent enhancement of humankind (BGE 257). Read the first page
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Anything Else Might Be Feckless, 27 Mar 2000
By Bruce P. Barten - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nietzsche and the Political (Thinking the Political) (Paperback)
I would recommend any book which has a chapter on the comedians of the ascetic ideal. I believe that chapter 6 of this book presents the fullest treatment which Professor Daniel W. Conway has been able to publish on this topic. The section on "Knowledge: A Form of Asceticism" compares Nietzsche's use of the ideal to "a feedback loop invested with residual, and potentially productive, powers of self-denial." (p. 111) Of course this is a difficult book, as Conway pursues the idea to the point where the risk run by Nietzsche, "for example, nearly killed him . . . and it may ultimately have hastened his departure from sanity." (p. 118) This book should appeal to anyone whose political views have the same tendency, or whose views may have failed completely. Any failure which has been repeated so often that it has become funny ought to be compared to the contents of this book.
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Anything Else Might Be Feckless, 27 Mar 2000
By Bruce P. Barten - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Nietzsche and the Political (Thinking the Political) (Paperback)
I would recommend any book which has a chapter on the comedians of the ascetic ideal. I believe that chapter 6 of this book presents the fullest treatment which Professor Daniel W. Conway has been able to publish on this topic. The section on "Knowledge: A Form of Asceticism" compares Nietzsche's use of the ideal to "a feedback loop invested with residual, and potentially productive, powers of self-denial." (p. 111) Of course this is a difficult book, as Conway pursues the idea to the point where the risk run by Nietzsche, "for example, nearly killed him . . . and it may ultimately have hastened his departure from sanity." (p. 118) This book should appeal to anyone whose political views have the same tendency, or whose views may have failed completely. Any failure which has been repeated so often that it has become funny ought to be compared to the contents of this book.
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