Nietzsche Contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521575690)

Keith Ansell-Pearson's book is an important and very welcome contribution to a neglected area of research: Nietzsche's political thought. Nietzsche is widely regarded as a significant moral philosopher, but his political thinking has often been dismissed as either impossibly individualistic or dangerously totalitarian. Nietzsche contra Rousseau takes a serious look at Nietzsche as political thinker and relates his political ideas to the dominant traditions of modern political thought. In particular, the nature of Nietzsche's dialogue with the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is examined, in order to demonstrate Rousseau's crucial role in Nietzsche's understanding of modernity and its discontents.

Author: Keith Ansell-Pearson
ISBN-10: 0521575699
ISBN-13: 9780521575690
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/1996
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.44h x 6.68w x 0.80d