Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics

by Lawrence Hatab and Lawrence J. Hatab

Book Overview

In A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy, Hatab offers a new, postmodern account of democracy, freed from the traditional assumptions embodied in the Enlightenment project. Hatab advances a two-fold argument: first, that Nietzsche was wrong to repudiate democracy since democratic politics can be more amenable to his way of thinking than he imagined; second, Nietzsche was right to critique fundamental flaws in traditional democratic theory, especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812692969
• ISBN13: 9780812692969
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Open Court
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"