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Nietzsche, Rancière and the Disputation of Politics

From the book Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference

  • Alan Watt

Abstract

This chapter approaches Nietzsche’s politics through the thought of Jacques Rancière. To help us resolve the recurring question of whether Nietzsche is a political thinker we should also ask “what is politics?”, and Rancière’s novel answer to the latter question allows a new way of affirming the political relevance of Nietzsche’s thought. Much of what is conventionally understood as politics is re-framed by Rancière as ‘the police’, his term for any order which puts all social actors in their supposedly ‘proper place’. Politics, on the other hand, takes place when the order is challenged by those who claim they are not properly counted, and is thus a radical form of dispute. Nietzsche, I claim, outlines just such a ‘different count’ in GM I, since the slave revolt in morality renames the parties and challenges the aristocratic count.

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