Friedrich Nietzsche and the politics of history
By: Christian J. Emden.
Series: Ideas in context -- no. 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521880565
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900; Political science -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Political science -- Philosophy; Political culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The failure of neo-humanism; title: Philologists, liberals, and the nation; title: The Austro-Prussian War in Leipzig; title: The demands of history; title: Toward a cautious materialism; title: Teleology and the laws of history; title: The formation of imperial Germany, seen from Basel; title: Intellectual culture in Basel; title: The practice of cultural history; title: The need for philosophical education; title: The "German spirit" and the Franco-Prussian War; title: The crisis of historical culture; title: The crisis of historicism; title: What is orientation in history?; title: The political mobilization of myth; title: "The soul of the antiquarian"; title: The impossible critical historian; title: Political lessons from cultural anthropology; title: The view from outside; title: Lessons from anthropology; title: Metaphor, myth, and cultural reality; title: "Survivals" - religion and the nation state; title: Political realism and the "free spirit"; title: Genealogy, naturalism, and the political; title: The path to genealogy; title: A natural history of moral communities; title: Sovereign individuals and the ethic of responsibility; title: The task of genealogy; title: "To translate humanity back into nature"; title: The idea of Europe and the limits of genealogy; title: "The creation of the European individual"; title: Beyond the modern nation state; title: Political realities in imperial Germany; title: Modernity and the limits of genealogy.