Nietzsche as Anti-Socialist: Prophet of Bourgeois Ennoblement
Dissertation, Yale University (
1995)
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Abstract
Nietzche is ultimately a pro-bourgeois thinker the internal coherence of whose ostensibly anti-systematic work is given by its anti-workingclass and more specifically anti-socialist animus. Nietzsche's highest political ambition is to re-make the European bourgeoisie into a new aristocratic caste exercising global dominion. In the dissertation's conclusion, I develop the reasons the sober bourgeois critic cannot profess the Nietzschean creed