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

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Nietzsche and the Political Right
Nietzsche’s Critique of Egalitarian Post-Christianity
	Introduction
	Part I: The Post-Structuralist Account of Nietzscheanism
		Deleuze’s Radicalization of Resentiment
		Nietzsche Contra Foucault
		Why Its Time to Give up the Post-Structuralist Reading
	Part II: Aristocratic Radicalism
		Theorizing on Nietzsche’s Politics
		Democracy, Plato, and the Rise of the Rabble
		Between Christ and Anti-Christ
		Liberalism, Socialism, and Democracy vs Aristocratic Radicalism
		The Great Politics of an Aristocratic Radical
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Nietzsche, Politics, and Truth in an Age of Post-truth
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Nietzsche as Muse to the Extreme Right
	Democracy’s Rise and the Fate of Genius
	Nietzsche’s Endorsement of Aristocracy and Its Implications
	From Fascism to Free Markets
	From Libertarianism to the Alt-Right
		Nietzsche, the Far Right, and the Crisis of the West
		The Crisis of Democracy and the Nietzschean Moment on the Right
	Embracing Ressentiment
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The Genealogy of Socialist Morality: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Nietzsche, G.A. Cohen and the Argumentative Value of Moral Disgust
	References
Marx or Nietzsche? On Self-Actualization and Its Modern Discontents
	Marx on Modern Self-Actualization and Its Discontents
	Nietzsche on Modern Self-Actualization and Its Discontents
	An Unbridgeable Gap: Marx Contra Nietzsche and Nietzsche Contra Marx
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Nietzsche’s Critique of Modernity
Nietzsche on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
	Introduction
	Interpretations of Nietzsche on Enlightenment
	Nietzsche and Voltaire
	The French Enlightenment and Their British Predecessors
	Rousseau’s Break with Locke’s Enlightenment
	Patronage and Enlightenment
	Losurdo’s Anti-Liberalism
	Bibliography
Not Beyond Politics: The Metapolitical Dimensions of Nietzsche’s Anti-Democratism in Beyond Good and Evil
	An Interpretive Experiment
	On Kaufmann’s “Antipolitical” Nietzsche
	Metapolitical, not Antipolitical: BGE and Its Anti-Democratic Task
	Bibliography
“Unhappy the Land Where Heroes Are Needed”: Nietzsche’s Overman in Dark Times
	Nietzsche Redux
	Master/Slave Morality, Equality, and Ressentiment
	The Politics of Ascetic Priests: From Trump and Spencer to Yarvin, Vance, and Beyond
		Trump and Spencer
		Yarvin, Vance, and Beyond
	From Right to Left Nietzscheans (and Back Again)
	Last Men, Overmen, and Wannabes
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Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Aristocratic Being
	Section I
	Interlude
	Section II
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
The Aesthetic Politics of Value
Nietzsche’s Dionysus vs. The Nihilism of Social Media Shitposting
	Introduction
	Nihilism Misrepresented
	Nietzsche’s Radical Yay-Saying
	Shudder as Antidote to Being Memed
	Towards a Dissonant Meme
	Bibliography
Animals Sick with Language: From Syntax to Socialism in Nietzsche
	Introduction
	Everything Everywhere All at Once: Or, ‘All Things Are Enchained, Entwined, Enamored’
	The Multiverse of Madness: Political Philosophy via Mind and Language
	The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent: Nietzsche’s Self-Reflections
	I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Qualifications and Conclusions
	Bibliography
Recurrent Reaction: Nietzsche and the Thought of the French Middle Strata
	The First Death of Nietzscheanism
	The Student-Subject of May ’68
	Free Spirits of the French Middle Strata
	Deleuze and the Eternal Return… of Capital
	Delinking from Deleuzo-Nietzscheanism
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Negative Politics: Nietzsche
	1: Prologue
		The Anti-Political Nietzsche
		Various Political Sketches of Nietzsche
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		Hannah Arendt: The Political
		The Genesis of the Conflict Between Philosophy and Politics
		Politics as a Miracle
	Epilogue: Nietzsche’s Negative Politics
	Bibliography
The Warnings of Nietzsche’s Works: Rhetorical Persuasion in Triumph of the Will (1935) and Death of a Nation (2018)
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Index