Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left - Hardcover

by Donovan Miyasaki (Author)

1. Introduction

Part I Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Against Aristocracy

2. Nietzsche's Immoralist Theory of State Legitimacy

3. Nietzsche's All Too Moralist Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism

Part II Justice Beyond Exchange

4. Nietzsche's Failed Theory of Aristocratic Justice

5. An Immoralist Theory of Right: Doing Justice to the Drives

Part III Democracy After Liberty

6. An Immoralist Theory of Peoples: Nobility as Collective Agency

7. An Immoralist Theory of Democracy as the Production of a People

Part IV Egalitarianism After Morality

8. An Immoralist Theory of Egalitarianism: Toward a Nietzschean Theory of Socialism

9. Conclusion: Toward a Nietzschean Socialist Politics

Back Jacket

This book completes the project, begun in Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy, of critically reconstructing a Nietzschean left politics. Nietzsche's incompatibilist ideal of amor fati requires reconceiving legitimacy as the breeding of a people whose material conditions enable it to affirm its social order. Justice is founded in a future, higher type's right to exist against present individuals who internalize the contradictions of past societies. In opposition to Nietzsche's self-undermining aristocratism, this right can only be realized through a universal promotion of the pluralistic unity of the manifold soul, secured by an equally manifold form of democracy. Against the covert aristocratism of liberal proceduralism, authentic democracy produces a true people grounded in shared, concrete happiness, requiring a comprehensive egalitarianism maintained by a permanent socialist state and achievable only through a populist, coalitional politics across identities that radically transforms the material conditions of our shared social life.

Author Biography

Donovan Miyasaki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wright State University, USA. He is the author of Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy (2022).