Nietzsche’s Earth
Great Events, Great Politics
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Acknowledgments
Nietzsche’s Works and Key to References
Chapter One Introduction: Toward Earth’s “Great Politics”
Chapter Two Unmodern Thinking: Globalization, the End of History, Great Events
Chapter Three Living on the Earth: States, Nomads, Multitude
Chapter Four Whose Time Is It? Kairos, Chronos, Debt
Chapter Five “The World Awaits You as a Garden”: A Political Aesthetic of the Anthropocene?
Chapter Six Earth, World, Antichrist: Nietzsche after Political Theology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"For some time now, Shapiro (Univ. of Richmond) has been one of the most thoughtful and innovative writers on Nietzsche, and Shapiro’s earlier works, including Nietzschean Narratives (1989) and Alcyone (CH, May'92, 29-5059), are essential reading for anyone who is drawn to Nietzsche’s astonishing ideas or his brilliant sense of style. Shapiro’s new volume offers another profound discussion of Nietzsche, this one focused on his thinking about nature, his continuing relevance as an important political thinker, and his account of the radical conflict between different global civilizations. Shapiro is himself an excellent writer, and publication of this book is an important event in contemporary Nietzsche scholarship. Chapters cover a variety of different but related themes, including globalization, the end of history, the great politics, modern ideas, post-theology, nomads, hybrids, and what Nietzsche called “the century of the multitude.” Shapiro also situates Nietzsche in relation to recent thinkers like Badiou, Agamben, Deleuze, and Foucault. Overall, Nietzsche’s Earth does an excellent job of showing how Nietzsche remains contemporary, and how his thought still illuminates the world of the early 21st century, with all of its complexities and struggles. Shapiro makes it clear why Nietzsche must still be read. Highly recommended."
human habitats: the concrete places, locales, climates, and environments that sustain our dwelling on earth. Here, geology and geography are brought to bear and expanded into an enriched, meaning-laden 'geo-philosophy.'... [A] brilliant analysis of how Nietzsche’s thought can be brought to bear on urgent
planetary questions facing our own time on earth."
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