Name: Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet, Paperback/Domenico Losurdo
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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. About author(s): Domenico Losurdo (1941-2018) was an Italian Marxist philosopher and historian. He was a Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Urbino and one of the world 's leading Hegel scholars and an expert on 19th and 20th-century intellectual history. He has produced a large body of scholarly work