ABSTRACT

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip!'
'Thus Spoke Zarathustra

'the democratic movement is...a form assumed by man in decay'
Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche's views on women and politics have long been the most embarrassing aspects of his thought. Why then has the work of Nietzsche aroused so much interest in recent years from feminist theorists and political philosophers?
In answer, this collection comprises twelve outsanding essays on Mietzsche 's work to current debates in feminist and political theory, It is the first to focus on the way in which Nietzche has become an essential point of reference for postmodern ehtical and political thought.

chapter 4|17 pages

Not drowning, sailing

Women and the artist's craft in Nietzsche

chapter 5|22 pages

‘Speaking of Immemorial Waters’

Irigaray with Nietzsche

chapter 6|20 pages

Das Weib an sich

The slave revolt in epistemology

chapter 7|14 pages

Ressentiment and power

Some reflections on feminist practices

chapter 9|27 pages

‘Is it not remarkable that Nietzsche…should have hated Rousseau?’

Woman, femininity: distancing Nietzsche from Rousseau

chapter 11|21 pages

Child of the English Genealogists

Nietzsche's affiliation with the critical historical mode of the Enlightenment