Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left

By: Miyasaki, Donovan

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031122305
• ISBN13: 9783031122309
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"