Nietzsche, Power and Politics ≥ Nietzsche, Power and Politics Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought Edited by Herman W. Siemens and Vasti Roodt Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York (cid:2)(cid:2)Printedonacid-freepaperwhichfallswithintheguidelines oftheANSItoensurepermanenceanddurability. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. ISBN 978-3-11-020237-3 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.d-nb.de. (cid:2)Copyright2008byWalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,10785Berlin,Germany. 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Acknowledgements Many of the papers in this volume are revised and expanded versions of papers first presented at 16th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society on Nietzsche, Power & Politics, held at the University of LeideninTheNetherlandsfrom23to25March2007,undertheaus- pices of the Faculty of Philosophy.The editors wish toexpress their grat- itude to the following for their generous support that made the confer- ence possible: the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Leiden; the Executive Board (College van Bestuur) of the University of Leiden; and the Leiden University Fund (LUF). The editors and publishers also wish to thank the University of Min- nesota Press for permission to use copyright material from Neuropolitics: Thinking,Culture,SpeedasthebasisforWilliamConnolly’sessay,‘Nietz- sche, Democracy, Time’ in this volume. Contents References and Citations ............................... XIII Abbreviations ....................................... XV Translations of Nietzsche’s writings....................... XXI Herman Siemens and Vasti Roodt Introduction ........................................ 1 ietzsche as Political Thinker I. N / ietzsche as Anti-political Thinker N Daniel Conway The Birth of the State ................................. 37 Paul van Tongeren Nietzsche as ‘(cid:2)ber-Politischer Denker’ .................... 69 Marina Cominos The Question of Nietzsche’s Anti-Politics and Human Transfiguration ...................................... 85 ietzsche andDemocracy/ II. N ietzsche contraDemocracy N II.1 Nietzsche and democracy William E. Connolly Nietzsche, Democracy, Time ............................ 109 David Owen Nietzsche, Ethical Agency and the Problem of Democracy .... 143 VIII Contents Lawrence J. Hatab Breaking the Contract Theory: The Individual and the Law in Nietzsche’s Genealogy .................................. 169 II.2 Nietzsche contra democracy Bernhard H. F. Taureck Nietzsche’s Reasoning against Democracy: Why He Uses the Social Herd Metaphor and Why He Fails ................. 191 Thomas H. Brobjer Critical Aspects of Nietzsche’s Relation to Politics and Democracy ......................................... 205 II.3 Nietzsche’s equivocal relation to democracy Herman Siemens Yes, No, Maybe So… Nietzsche’s Equivocations on the Relation between Democracy and ‘Grosse Politik’ .................. 231 Paolo Diego Bubbio The Sacrifice of the Overman as an Expression of the Will to Power: Anti-Political Consequences and Contributions to Democracy ......................................... 269 ietzsche on Aristocracy and Empire III. N Thomas Fossen Nietzsche’s Aristocratism Revisited ....................... 299 Anthony K. Jensen Anti-Politicality and Agon in Nietzsche’s Philology .......... 319 Don Dombowsky Nietzsche as Bonapartist ............................... 347 Angela Holzer ‘Nietzsche Caesar’ .................................... 371 Contents IX ietzsche andArendt ietzsche versusArendt IV. N /N Dana Villa How ‘Nietzschean’ Was Arendt? ......................... 395 Vasti Roodt Nietzsche and/or Arendt? .............................. 411 Marinus Schoeman Overcoming Resentment. Remarks on the Supra-Moral Ethic of Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt .......................... 431 ietzsche on Power and Rights V. N Martin Saar Forces and Powers in Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals ........ 453 Paul Patton Nietzsche on Rights, Power and the Feeling of Power ........ 471 ietzsche’s Politics of Friendship and Enmity VI. N Debra Bergoffen On Nietzsche and the Enemy: Nietzsche’s New Politics ...... 491 Benedetta Zavatta Nietzsche and Emerson on Friendship and Its Ethical-Political Implications ........................................ 511 ietzsche and Politics in istorical Perspective VII. N H Koenraad Elst Manu as a Weapon against Egalitarianism: Nietzsche and Hindu Political Philosophy ................................... 543 Isabelle Wienand Political Implications of Happiness in Descartes and Nietzsche . 583 X Contents Ian Cooper Nietzsche, Money And Bildung ......................... 605 Nikola Regent A ‘Wondrous Echo’: Burckhardt, Renaissance and Nietzsche’s Political Thought .................................... 629 Nidesh Lawtoo Nietzsche and the Psychology of Mimesis: From Plato to the F(cid:2)hrer ............................................. 667 ietzsche and Contemporary Political Theory: VIII. N enealogy, Biopolitics and the Body G Christopher Allsobrook ContingentCriticism:BridgingIdeologyCritiqueandGenealogy 697 Vanessa Lemm The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life ................. 719 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy Corporealizing Thought: Translating the Eternal Return Back into Politics ......................................... 741 ietzsche on Philosophy and Politics (of the Future) IX. N Keith Ansell Pearson ‘Holding on to the Sublime’: Nietzsche on Philosophy’s Perception and Search for Greatness ...................... 767 Ciano Aydin The Struggle Between Ideals: Nietzsche, Schmitt and Lefort on the Politics of the Future .............................. 801