Art Of Power
The Art of Power is a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano examines the work of Machiavelli, arguing that he establishes a new aesthetic perspective on political life. He then carries out the most extensive analysis to date of an important relationship in political theory: that between the thought of Niccolo Machiavelli and Friedrich Nietzsche. The Art of Power makes a significant contribution to the growing interest in the intersection of aesthetic theory and...
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The Art of Power offers up a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano provides original interpretations of Machiavelli's oeuvre and of Nietzsche's relationship to politics.
Abbreviations ixAcknowledgements xiIntroduction: Art, Power, and Knowledge 1Part IMachiavelli's Ass and the Poetics of Political Life 11Tragic Machiavelli: The Agon of the Heroic Prince 43Part IINietzsche's Machiavellism 73A Machiavellian Zarathustra: The Aesthetic Politics of Value Creation 111Part IIIThe Form of Aesthetic Political Theory 139Aesthetic Political Theory and Modernity 159Conclusion: Spectacular Politics 185Bibliography 197Index 207
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