ABSTRACT
THE PROBLEM OF NIETZSCHE’S POLITICS In recent years, a number of scholars have argued that Nietzsche held political views which would require the state to possess enormous powers, powers so great that, if they are right, it would be quite reasonable to describe his views as “totalitarian.”1 The passages in Nietzsche’s writings that at least seem to support this sort of interpretation are numerous and, in many cases, very familiar to Nietzsche’s readers.
