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Nietzsche and the Political (Thinking the Political) [Kindle Edition]

Daniel W.Conway

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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

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Contrary to much recent opinion, Daniel Conway argues that Nietzsche's political thinking is fully consistent with his diagnosis of modernity as an exhausted and dying epoch. In addition, he clearly shows how Nietzsche does not recoil from political life in late modernity, but articulates an ethical and political teaching that relocates his notorious "perfectionism" to the political sphere.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 386 KB
  • Print Length: 178 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0415100690
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis (16 Mar 2007)
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  • Language English
  • ASIN: B000OI16WO
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Anything Else Might Be Feckless 27 Mar 2000
By Bruce P. Barten - Published on Amazon.com
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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.
0 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Anything Else Might Be Feckless 27 Mar 2000
By Bruce P. Barten - Published on Amazon.com
Format: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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