Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left

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: Donovan Miyasaki
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 20, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 345 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 3031122275
• | ISBN-13: 9783031122279