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978-0-7391-5051-1 • Hardback • April 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
Anas Karzai is lecturer in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the criminology program at Laurentian University.
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Acknowledgments
Nietzsche’s Life and Thought
Introduction
Part I: Nietzsche’s Influence on Modern Social Theory
Chapter 1 From Genealogy to Biopower: Michel Foucault (1926–84)
Chapter 2 On Negative Dialectics and Genealogy: Theodor W. Adorno (1903–69)
Chapter 3 From the Protestant Work Ethic to the Iron Cage of Modernity: Max Weber (1864–1920)
Part II: Nietzsche and Other Sociologists
Chapter 4 Nietzsche and Marx on the Limits of Enlightenment
Chapter 5 The Ascetic Sociologists: The Case of Comte and Durkheim
Part III: Nietzsche on Culture
Chapter 6 The Sociology of Culture
Chapter 7 The Sociology of Politics and History
Chapter 8 The Sociology of Knowledge
Conclusion: Toward an Affirmative Thought for Life
Bibliography
In this turbulent time in which the death of the social reveals itself in the form of increasingly violent spasms of racialized hatred and bitter cultural divisions, what could be more timely than Anas Karzai’s important reflections on Nietzsche as a “prophet of affirmation” charting a pathway of thought and practice through the complicated history that is the twenty-first century? Here, the affirmative thought of Nietzsche is traced in its full dimensions, a critically engaged and eloquently written story that follows a brilliant trajectory from Comte and Durkheim to those other affirmative thinkers of modern times—Foucault, Adorno and Weber.
— Arthur Kroker, is author of, among others, The Will to Technology: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Marx, Body Drift and Exits to the Posthuman Future