Nietzsche's Political Engagements

On the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics in The Wanderer and His Shadow

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ID6403250
AuthorsJeremy Fortier (0009-0005-9156-8711, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume78
Issue2
Pages201-225
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670516000024
OpenAlexW2337237128
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

In Nietzsche's early and late writings, he appears as an antimodern, antiliberal political revolutionary, championing the world-transformative characters of (first) Richard Wagner and (later) Zarathustra. By contrast, in the writings of his “middle period,” Nietzsche struck up a rapprochement with the modern world, and developed the ideal of a “free spirit.” Among those writings, The Wanderer and His Shadow sheds the most revealing light on the free spirit ideal. It shows that, even as Nietzsche sought to avoid some of the hazards associated with his more revolutionary writings, he continued to advocate a sharply critical engagement with political and cultural life. And it reveals what Nietzsche understood to be most challenging or problematic about the free spirit ideal—and, thereby, what later moved him away from it

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Theology · Transformative learning · Zoroaster · Law · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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