Nietzsche contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought

by Keith Ansell-Pearson

Keith Ansell-Pearson's book is an important and very welcome contribution to a neglected area of Nietzsche's political thought. Nietzsche is widely regarded as a significant moral philosopher, but his political thinking has often been dismissed as either impossibly individualistic or dangerously totalitarian. Nietzsche contra Rousseau takes a serious look at Nietzsche as political thinker and relates his political ideas to the dominant traditions of modern political thought. In particular, the nature of Nietzsche's dialogue with the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is examined, in order to demonstrate Rousseau's crucial role in Nietzsche's understanding of modernity and its discontents.

Genres: Philosophy

304 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1991

About the author

Keith Ansell-Pearson joined Warwick's Philosophy Department in 1993 and has held a Personal Chair since 1998. He did his graduate studies at the University of Sussex. He has presented lectures around the world, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United States. In 2013/14 he was Senior Visiting Research Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University.

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