Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Recollection of Freedom
	My Interpretive Approach
1 Escape to Lake Bienne: How Rousseau Turned the World Upside Down
	The Critique of Bourgeois Life
	The Natural Condition of Man
	The Social Contract and the General Will
	Love and Family
	The Solitary Dreamer
	Unresolved Paradoxes: Rousseau's Bequest
2 Redeeming Modernity: The Erotic Ascent of Hegel's Phenomenology
	The Paradoxes of Rousseau and the Responses from Kant and Schiller
	Love and Understanding: The Emergence of Hegelian Historicism
	The Concept of Spirit
	The Structure and Content of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
	Hegel on the Ancient Polis and Its Overcoming
	History and Political Life
	Terror and Dialectic: Concluding Reflections on the Structure of Hegel's Phenomenology
	Marx and the First Assault on the Hegelian Middle
	Evolution or Revolution?
3 The Will to Power and the Politics of Greatness: Nietzsche's Revelation
	Tragedy and the World-Artist
	How Much History? A Homeopathic Prescription
	Preliminary Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of History
	Bending the Bow and The Prejudices of Philosophers
	The New Philosophers?
	The Advantages and Disadvantages of Religion for Life
	Cleansing the Palate and Beginning Again
	Philosophers Who Command Unconditionally: The Coming Battle
	All Will Be Different
	Dreaming of Europe: A Mellow Old Soul and an Ever-Young Future
	What Endures?
	Zarathustra's Teaching: General Reflections on Nietzsche's Philosophy of History and Its Political Implications
	Zarathustra versus The Crucified? The Ambiguities of Nietzsche's Assessment of Christianity
	The Fundamental Premises of Nietzsche's Historicism
	The Politics of Greatness
4 The Distant Command of the Greeks: Heidegger and the Community of Destiny
	The Being Tree: Introductory Remarks on Heideggerian Ontology
	Authenticity, Commitment and Resolve
	The Inner Truth and Greatness of National Socialism
	Let Us Compare Etymologies
	The Political Implications of Heidegger's Early Thought
	The Attraction and the Culpability
	Eschatological Reversal: The Shepherd of Being and the Deliverance of the Earth
	The Wrong Existentialism
	Technology and the Future of Being
	The Unacknowledged Ally: Heidegger's Dubious Appropriation of Nietzsche
	Conclusion: Three Perspectives on Heidegger and an Attempt at a General Evaluation
Conclusion: The Fragmented Legacy of the Philosophy of Freedom
	The End of Absolute Knowledge
	The Breakup: Habermas, Foucault and Gadamer
	The Lingering Vision of the Ancient Greeks
	History and Revelation
	The Revolution Continues: The Philosophy of Freedom and the Political World
	More Recent Heideggerian Hybrids
	Apocalypse Now?
Further Reading
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Conclusion
Bibliography
Index