Politics After Morality

This book completes the project, begun in Nietzsche's Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy, 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. In opposition to Nietzsche's self-undermining aristocratism, this right can only be realized through a universal promotion of the pluralistic unity of the manifold soul, secured by an equally manifold form of 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.

1. Introduction. - Part I Nietzsche Contra Nietzsche: Against Aristocracy. - 2. Nietzsche s Immoralist Theory of State Legitimacy. - 3. Nietzsche s All Too Moralist Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism. - Part II Justice Beyond Exchange. - 4. Nietzsche s Failed Theory of Aristocratic Justice. - 5. An Immoralist Theory of Right: Doing Justice to the Drives. - Part III Democracy After Liberty. - 6. An Immoralist Theory of Peoples: Nobility as Collective Agency. - 7. An Immoralist Theory of Democracy as the Production of a People. - Part IV Egalitarianism After Morality. - 8. An Immoralist Theory of Egalitarianism: Toward a Nietzschean Theory of Socialism. - 9. Conclusion: Toward a Nietzschean Socialist Politics.