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Book SynopsisAnas Karzaiâs timely book emphasizes how modern progressive sociological and political thought including the work of Weber, Adorno, and Foucault, is based on an often unacknowledged debt to Nietzsche. Karzaiâs book highlights how Nietzscheâs observation of the human condition in modernity is to be read as an affirmative critique.
Trade ReviewIn 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
Table of ContentsAbbreviations 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
