Is Nietzsche a political thinker?

International Journal of Philosophical Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-13

  Nussbaum, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Liberalism; Moral psychology; Nietzsche; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749149364     PISSN: 09672559     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09672559708570842     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. These thinkers, in turn, follow the Greek Stoics: see Nussbaum, 'Pity and Mercy: Nietzsche's Stoicism' in R. Schacht (ed.) Nietzsche: Genealogy, Morality (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 139-67.
2. This work is itself closely linked to ancient antecedents, especially to Cicero's De Officiis, but also to arguments of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. See my 'Kant and Stoic Cosmopolitanism', forthcoming in M. Lutz-Bachmann (ed.) Proceedings of Conference on Kant's Political Philosophy held in Frankfurt, May 1995.
3. His problem is related to that encountered by Callicles in Plato's Gorgias, when he both holds that democracy, like all other regimes, expresses the desire of a dominant group to enjoy power and at the same time criticizes democracy for constraining the most powerful individuals. See the appendix on Nietzsche and Callicles in E. R. Dodds, Plato: Gorgias (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959).
4. See Derrida, Épérons: Les Styles de Nietzsche, trans. as Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
5. 'Could It Be Worth Thinking About Kant on Sex and Marriage?' in Louise Antony and Charlotte Witt (eds) A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (Boulder: Westview, 1993), pp. 49-67.
6. 'Skirmishes', §. 38: 'one need only go through history
7. In W. Kaufman (ed.) Viking Portable Nietzsche (New York: Viking Penguin, 1954), p. 31.
8. See also GM III, on the role of these conditions as tests of and even as constitutive of the philosopher: see Nussbaum, Viking Portable Nietzsche , op. cit. Note 1.