Nietzsche's revolution
Subtitle: decadence, politics, and sexuality
By: C. Heike Schotten.
Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230613584
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900 -- Influence; Queer theory; Homosexuality -- Philosophy
Description: :Nietzsche's Revolution argues that Nietzsche is a revolutionary who aims to liberate modernity by overthrowing Christianity. Although Nietzsche's terrified inability to follow through on this revolutionary project causes him to retreat into a retrograde essentialism of race and gender that betrays his own revolutionary promise, Nietzsche's complicity in this failure bequeaths this revolution to us, his future readers, who can take it up in the form of poststructuralist queer theory and politics. This is a revolutionary future Nietzsche could neither have foreseen nor endorsed, but is the necessary consequence of his quest to overthrow Christianity's cult of meaning."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.