The essays gathered together in this volume are the work of leading Nietzsche scholars and include reprints of seminal writings from all the major interpretive schools. Also included is a new translation of one of Nietzsche's most controversial writings, The Greek State, as well as a lengthy bibliography of writings on Nietzsche and politics.

Contents: Introduction; Part I Nietzsche and Political Responsibility: Nietzsche and the war, William Mackintire Salter; Nazism as Nietzschean experiment, Kurt Rudolf Fischer; Nietzsche, the crisis and the war, Eric Voegelin. Part II Nietzsche and Democratic (?) Politics: The relevance of Nietzsche to democratic theory: micropolitics and the affirmation of difference, Nathan Widder; Nietzsche for democracy?, Alan D. Schrift. Part III Nietzsche and Aristocratic (?) Politics: The roots of contemporary nihilism and its political consequences according to Nietzsche, Thomas L. Pangle; Nietzsche's Napoleon: the higher man as political actor, Paul F.Glenn. Part IV Neitzsche as/and Critical Theory: Nietzsche's concept of ideology, Mark Warren; The institution and destitution of the political according to Nietzsche, Michel Haar; Nietzsche and critical theory, Klaus Spiekerman; Nietzsche's will to power: politics and destiny, Babette E. Babich; Nietzsche/art/postmodernism. A reply to Jürgen Habermas, David Wellbery. Part V Nietzsche's Political Project: On the morals of genealogy, Jacqueline Stevens; Peoples and fatherlands: Nietzsche's geophilosophy and the direction of the Earth, Gary Shapiro; Thinking about human extinction: (I) Nietzsche and Heidegger, George Kateb; The politics of music (Nietzsche), Marc Crépon; Philosophy and the politics of cultural revolution, Tracy B. Strong; Appendix; Bibliography; Name Index.