Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction

Part I: Nietzsche and the Political Right.- Chapter 1: Nietzsche's Critique of Egalitarian Post-Christianity.- Chapter 2: Nietzsche, Politics, and Truth in an Age of Post-Truth.- Chapter 3: Nietzsche as Muse to the Far Right.- Chapter 4: The Genealogy of Socialist Morality: Some Preliminary Thoughts On Nietzsche, G.A. Cohen and the Argumentative Value of Moral Disgust.- Part II: Nietzsche's Critique of Modernity.- Chapter 5: Nietzsche and Losurdo on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.- Chapter 6: Not Beyond Politics: The Metaphysical Dimensions of Nietzsche's Anti Democratism in Beyond Good and Evil.- Chapter 7: Unhappy the Land Where Heroes Are Needed:  Nietzsche's Overman in Dark Times.- Chapter 8: Nietzsche, Aristotle, and Aristocratic Being.- Part III: The Aesthetic Politics of Value.- Chapter 9: Nietzsche's Dionysus vs. The Nihilism of Social Media Shitposting.- Chapter 10: Animals Sick with Language: From Syntax to Socialism in Nietzsche.- Chapter 11: Recurrent Reaction: Nietzsche and the Reaction of the Middle French Strata.- Chapter 12: Negative Politics: Nietzsche.- Chapter 12: The Warnings of Nietzsche's Works: Rhetorical Persuasion in Triumph of the Will (1935) and Death of a Nation (2018).

Matthew McManus completed his Ph.D. in Socio-Legal Studies at York University, Ontario, in 2017 under the supervision of Dr. Lesley Jacobs. After completing his postdoctoral research and working on the Committee for International Justice and Accountability, Matthew assumed a Professorship teaching politics, international relations and law at Tec de Monterrey in the State of Mexico. Matthew McManus teaches at the University of Calgary and is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism amongst other books.