Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521880565)

This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding of modern political culture and his position in the history of modern political thought. Surveying Nietzsche's entire intellectual career from his years as a student in Bonn and Leipzig during the 1860s to his genealogical project of the 1880s, Christian Emden contributes to a historically informed discussion of Nietzsche's response to the political predicaments of modernity, and sheds new light on the intellectual and political culture in Germany as the ideals of the Enlightenment gave way to the demands of the modern nation state. This is a distinguished addition to the series of Ideas in Context, and a major reassessment of a philosopher and aphorist whose stature among post-enlightenment European thinkers is now almost unrivalled.

Author: Christian J. Emden
ISBN-10: 0521880564
ISBN-13: 9780521880565
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2008
Pages: 412
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2009