Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction: Essays on Liberalism, Socialism, and Aristocratic Radicalism

Introduction by Matt McManus

Part I: The Residue of Christianity and Rousseau

Matt McManus is the author or editor of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and Liberalism and Socialism: Embittered Kin or Mortal Enemies? (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)) amongst other books. His chapter will examine Nietzsche's genealogical claim that liberalism, socialism and democracy are effectively a continuation of the Christian ethos by other means. He will argue that Nietzsche is correct in this assessment, but not in his denigration of its egalitarian aspirations.

Jordan DeJonge is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Ottawa. His essay will interrogate the connection between Nietzsche's metaphysics of the will and his aristocratism.

Ronald Beiner is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the author of Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Return of the Far Right (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). He will be writing on the influence of Nietzsche's thinking a post-truth age and diagnosing his popularity with contemporary far right activists.

Marion Trejo is a PhD Candidate at York University and a former Professor of Political Science and International relations at Tec De Monterrey. She will be examining the influence of Nietzsche's genealogical method on post-structuralists like Michel Foucault, and discussing why he remains an important touchstone despite being committed to many reactionary positions.

Part II: Nietzsche's Critique of Modernity

Nancy S. Love is a Professor of Political Science at Appalachian State University and the author of Marx, Nietzsche and Modernity (Columbia University Press, 1986) amongst other books. She will be writing on the uses and misuses of Nietzsche's concept of inequality by figures on both the right and the left.

Edward Andrew is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the author of The Genealogy of Values: The Aesthetic Economy of Nietzsche and Proust (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1995) amongst other books. His essay will examine the political ramifications of genealogical deconstruction for our understanding of the modern world.

Conrad Hamilton completed a PhD on Marxist philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and is a co-author of Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson (Zero Books, 2020) amongst other works. He will be contrasting Nietzsche's analysis of modernity and its discontents with the work of egalitarian critics such as Mark Fisher and Marx.

Igor Shoikhedbrod is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the author of Revisiting Marx's Critique of Liberalism (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). His paper will critically compare and contrast Marx and Nietzsche's divergent views on self-realization and its modern discontents. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, the paper will argue that the different accounts of self-realization offered by Marx and Nietzsche are inescapably prescriptive and political. This compels contemporaries to choose between two warring schools of radicalism (the socialist and the aristocratic) in response to the ongoing crises of liberalism.

Part III: The Aesthetics of Value

David Hollands is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Trent University focusing on film narratology. His essay will be assessing Nietzsche's influence on political cinema; focusin

Author: Matthew McManus
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/02/2023
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9783031136344