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Nietzsche's philosophical effort is fundamentally a response to the political question of who should rule and upon what basis in the era following the death of God. Because Nietzsche's response to nihilism is so unique, scholars still debate the nature and success of his political philosophy in overcoming a spirit of revenge. In The Sovereignty of Joy: Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics, Alex McIntyre suggests that a sense of tragic joy is the legislating experience at the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy. A Dionysian exuberance animates all of Nietzsche's central ideas – will to power, self-mastery, the Overman, amor fati, eternal return – and especially his'grand politics,'which McIntyre argues is the political elaboration of the sovereignty of joy. This study interprets Nietzsche's conception of tragic joy as the affirmation of the fullness of becoming at every moment, an affirmation which overcomes revenge and nihilism by embracing suffering and loss. As the embodiment of tragic joy, the Overman represents a new form of philosophical statesmanship that cannot be reduced to either a politics of domination or an idealistic utopianism, for such an interpretation ignores the'atopi

Author

Alex McIntyre

Publisher

University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802041104

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Political Science