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Nietzsche's revolution : décadence, politics, and sexuality

Title: Nietzsche's revolution : décadence, politics, and sexuality / C. Heike Schotten.
Author: Schotten, C. Heike.
Publication: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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xii, 272 pages; 22 cm

Summary

:Nietzsche's Revolution argues that Nietzsche is a revolutionary who aims to liberate modernity by overthrowing Christianity. Although Nietzsche's terrified inability to follow through on this revolutionary project causes him to retreat into a retrograde essentialism of race and gender that betrays his own revolutionary promise, Nietzsche's complicity in this failure bequeaths this revolution to us, his future readers, who can take it up in the form of poststructuralist queer theory and politics. This is a revolutionary future Nietzsche could neither have foreseen nor endorsed, but is the necessary consequence of his quest to overthrow Christianity's cult of meaning."--Book cover.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Body Politics -- Chapter 1. Some Terms: the Body, Health, Will to Power --- Part I: Revolution -- Chapter 2. Diagnosis: De;cadence -- Chapter 3. Treatment: revolution --- Part II: Conservation -- Chapter 4. Diagnosis: Emasculation -- Chapter 5. Treatment: Redemption --- Part III: Contradiction -- Chapter 6. Queering Revolution.

ISBN

9780230613584
0230613586

LCCN

2008050776
99936111575

OCLC

ocn255888331
255888331
SCSB-14688906

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Princeton University Library