Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet (Historical Materialism 200)

Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 6x2x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Domenico Losurdo, Harrison Fluss. Translator: Gregor Benton. "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet (Historical Materialism 200)." Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. English language. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 62 oz. xxi, 1054 pp. Text clean. Like New. ISBN: 9789004270947."Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work widely regarded as the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking―his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics―he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche's works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists. Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002.