By Donovan Miyasaki
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 10/21/2022
Description:
This book completes the project, begun in “Nietzsche’s Immoralism,” of critically reconstructing a Nietzschean left politics. Nietzsche’s incompatibilist ideal of amor fati requires reconceiving legitimacy as the breeding of a people whose material conditions enable it to affirm its social order. Justice is founded in a future, higher type’s right to exist against present individuals who internalize the contradictions of past societies. Against his aristocratism, this can only be realized through the universal promotion of the pluralistic unity of the manifold soul, secured by an equally manifold democracy. Against the covert aristocratism of liberal proceduralism, authentic democracy produces a true people grounded in shared, concrete happiness, requiring a comprehensive egalitarianism maintained by a permanent socialist state and achievable only through a populist, coalitional politics across identities that radically transforms the material conditions of our shared social life.