The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political TheoryThe 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. |
Contents
Machiavellis Ass and the Poetics of Political Life | 11 |
Tragic Machiavelli The Agon of the Heroic Prince | 43 |
Nietzsches Machiavellism | 73 |
A Machiavellian Zarathustra The Aesthetic Politics of Value Creation | 111 |
The Form of Aesthetic Political Theory | 139 |
Aesthetic Political Theory and Modernity | 159 |
Spectacular Politics | 185 |
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