Nietzsche's philosophical effort is fundamentally a response to
the political question of who should rule and upon what basis in
the era following the death of God. Because Nietzsche's response to
nihilism is so unique, scholars still debate the nature and success
of his political philosophy in overcoming a spirit of revenge. In
The Sovereignty of Joy: Nietzsche's Vision of Grand Politics, Alex
McIntyre suggests that a sense of tragic joy is the legislating
experience at the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy. A Dionysian
exuberance animates all of Nietzsche's central ideas -- will to
power, self-mastery, the Overman, amor fati, eternal return -- and
especially his 'grand politics, ' which McIntyre argues is the
political elaboration of the sovereignty of joy.
This study interprets Nietzsche's conception of tragic joy as
the affirmation of the fullness of becoming at every moment, an
affirmation which overcomes revenge and nihilism by embracing
suffering and loss. As the embodiment of tragic joy, the Overman
represents a new form of philosophical statesmanship that cannot be
reduced to either a politics of domination or an idealistic
utopianism, for such an interpretation ignores the 'atopian' nature
of Nietzsche's grand politics. McIntyre characterizes 'atopia' as
the double position of the Nietzschean philosopher at both the
centre and the periphery of a political culture through the
revaluation of all values.
By rediscovering the ethos of communion and the creative
conception of joy that inform Nietzsche's writings, The Sovereignty
of Joy persuasively challenges the notion that Nietzsche's grand
politics are power politics or utopian idealism in another
form.
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