Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (Philosophy and Social Criticism series) by David Owen

Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (Philosophy and Social Criticism series)

David Owen
192 pages
SAGE Publications Ltd
Dec 1995
1st Edition
Psychology & Philosophy WSBN
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Written in a clear and engaging style, this text demonstrates Nietzsche′s significance as a philosopher and as a political theorist by highlighting his critique of liberalism (in both its philosophical and political forms) and by elaborating the form of ethical and political understanding which his philosophy discloses. In describing Nietzsche′s diagnosis of the modern condition, this book explains the central aspects of his thought including the will to power, the Overman and amor fati. David Owen traces the relevance of Nietzsche′s philosophy to current debates in political theory and engages with key figures such as MacIntyre, Taylor, Rorty and Rawls. Owen argues that the liberalism of the latter two can be seen a

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