Leiden and Boston: Brill 2019 First Edition Hardcover Like New Size: 6x2x9; [PHILOSOPHY]. Domenico Losurdo, Harrison Fluss. Translator: Gregor Benton. "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet (Historical Materialism 200)." Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. English language. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 62 oz. xxi, 1054 pp. Text clean. Like New. ISBN: 9789004270947."Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work widely regarded as the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinkingâ€"his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenicsâ€"he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche's works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists. Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as ...