Nietzsche's Culture of Humanity

Jeffrey Church is a political theorist whose research area is the history of modern political thought, with particular interest in continental thought, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau through Friedrich Nietzsche. His work examines the reflections of past philosophers on freedom, individuality, education and culture, and shows how these reflections can inform contemporary liberal and democratic theory. He is the author most recently of Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche, which won the Best First Book award given by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association.

• Part I. The Foundation of Culture in the Early Nietzsche: 1. The influence of Kant and Herder; 2. Nihilism and the contradiction of human nature; 3. Freedom and the best life; Part II. Two Concepts of Culture in the Early Nietzsche: 4. Nietzsche's exemplary individual; 5. National culture; 6. Cosmopolitan culture; Part III. The Means to Culture in the Early Nietzsche: 7. The education to culture; 8. The state, liberalism, and culture; Part IV. The Significance of the Early Nietzsche: 9. From the early to the late Nietzsche; 10. Culture as identity, culture as individuals.