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1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Western Political Science Association 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Content:
Political theorists have put Friedrich Nietzsche to work in a variety of ways to bolster claims about the possibility of democratic, agonistic politics. This paper theorizes the permutations of self/other relationships found in Nietzsche's writing and argues that both the self/neighbor and self/friend relationships he describes are necessary for theorizing a post-Nietzschean agonism. I argue that most agonistic interpretations of Nietzsche heed only the self/friend relationship, based on mutual respect, while ignoring the more contentious encounters of self and neighbor. Yet both need to be accounted for in theories of an agonistic democracy, in which members have not only diverse but also conflicting perspectives, needs, and desires and the respect presumed in most theories of agonism may be compromised or non-existent. By attending to the interaction between both kinds of Nietzschean relationships, political theorists can more satisfactorily explain how a fractious, hierarchical society may move shift to a conflictual yet egalitarian co-existence, without unduly deemphasizing differences of ideology, creed, or perspective
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Language:
English
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