The art of power : Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the making of aesthetic political theory / Diego A. von Vacano.
"The Art of Power is a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano examines the work of Machiavelli, arguing that he establishes a new aesthetic perspective on political life. He then carries out the most extensive analysis to date of an important relationship in political th...
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : art, power, and knowledge
- Ch. 1. Machiavelli's Ass and the poetics of political life
- Ch. 2. Tragic Machiavelli : the agon of the heroic Prince
- Ch. 3. Nietzsche's Machiavellism
- Ch. 4. A Machiavellian Zarathustra : the aesthetic politics of value creation
- Ch. 5. The form of aesthetic political theory
- Ch. 6. Aesthetic political theory and modernity
- Conclusion : spectacular politics.