Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics

Download or read book Nietzsche's Machiavellian Politics written by D. Dombowsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting new study, Don Dombowsky proposes that the foundation of Nietzsche's political thought is the aristocratic liberal critique of democratic society. But he claims that Nietzsche radicalizes this critique through a Machiavellian conversion, based on a reading of The Prince , adapting Machiavellian virtù (the shaping capacity of the legislator), and immoralism (the techniques applied in political rule), and that, consequently, Nietzsche is better understood in relation to the political ideology of the neo-Machiavellian elite theorists of his own generation.