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<h1>Nietzsche’s Earth</h1>
<h2>Great Events, Great Politics</h2>
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<p class="author"><a
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<div class="info"> 264 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2016 </div>
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<div>We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most
important accomplishments in intellectual history, but
as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at
Nietzsche’s thought, the nineteenth-century
philosopher actually anticipated some of the most
pressing questions of our own era. Putting Nietzsche
into conversation with contemporary philosophers such
as Deleuze, Agamben, Foucault, Derrida, and others,
Shapiro links Nietzsche’s powerful ideas to topics
that are very much on the contemporary agenda:
globalization, the nature of the livable earth, and
the geopolitical categories that characterize people
and places.<br>
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Shapiro explores Nietzsche’s rejection of historical
inevitability and its idea of the end of history. He
highlights Nietzsche’s prescient vision of today’s
massive human mobility and his criticism of the nation
state’s desperate efforts to sustain its exclusive
rule by declaring emergencies and states of exception.
Shapiro then explores Nietzsche’s vision of a
transformed garden earth and the ways it sketches an
aesthetic of the Anthropocene. He concludes with an
explanation of the deep political structure of
Nietzsche’s “philosophy of the Antichrist,” by
relating it to traditional political theology. By
triangulating Nietzsche between his time and ours,
between Bismarck’s Germany and post-9/11 America, <i>Nietzsche’s
Earth </i>invites readers to rethink not just the
philosopher himself but the very direction of human
history.<br>
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<div>Preface<br>
Acknowledgments<br>
Nietzsche’s Works and Key to References</div>
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Chapter One Introduction: Toward Earth’s
“Great Politics”<br>
Chapter Two Unmodern Thinking: Globalization,
the End of History, Great Events<br>
Chapter Three Living on the Earth: States,
Nomads, Multitude<br>
Chapter Four Whose Time Is It? <i>Kairos</i>,
<i>Chronos</i>, Debt<br>
Chapter Five “The World Awaits You as a
Garden”: A Political Aesthetic of the Anthropocene?<br>
Chapter Six Earth, World, Antichrist:
Nietzsche after Political Theology
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Notes<br>
Bibliography<br>
Index</div>
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