Nietzsche and Napoleon
The Dionysian Conspiracy| By: | Don Dombowsky |
| Publisher: | Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic |
| Print ISBN: | 9781783160976 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781783160983 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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This book argues that Nietzsche's political thought and his own proposed model of governance is Bonapartist in conception: autocratic will in the guise of popular rule. Bonaparte is the model for the Nietzschean commander; not only his virtu, his ethics of martial valour, but his political institutions and techniques of power. Nietzsche understood that Napoleon manipulated the democratic process, abandoned the concept of popular sovereignty and undermined the principle of equality, that he was opposed to parliamentary politics but maintained their simulacra, a manoeuvre Nietzsche admired in respect of tactics.