Tracy B. Strong is a distinguished professor of political science who delves deeply into the political and ethical perspectives of the modern world. His work explores the complex relationships between philosophy, religion, and societal structures. Strong's approach is characterized by insightful analysis of key thinkers' ideas and their impact on political theories. His insights offer readers fresh perspectives on enduring questions of ethics and politics.
Rousseau is portrayed as a theorist focused on the common individual, aligning him with thinkers like Kant, Hegel, and Marx, while also connecting him to modern philosophers such as Emerson and Nietzsche. The book delves into Rousseau's concept of the democratic individual as a complex, multiple self. Strong investigates Rousseau's apprehensions about authorship, his views on humanity, and his efforts to address the challenges posed by relativism in politics, alongside the significant role of sexuality in his political thought.
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.
Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political one. With Learning One’s Native Tongue, Tracy B. Strong explores the development of the concept of American citizenship and what it means to belong to this country, starting with the Puritans in the seventeenth century and continuing to the present day. He examines the conflicts over the meaning of citizenship in the writings and speeches of prominent thinkers and leaders ranging from John Winthrop and Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Franklin Roosevelt, among many others who have participated in these important cultural and political debates. The criteria that define what being a citizen entails change over time and in response to historical developments, and they are thus also often the source of controversy and conflict, as with voting rights for women and African Americans. Strong looks closely at these conflicts and the ensuing changes in the conception of citizenship, paying attention to what difference each change makes and what each particular conception entails socially and politically.
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration provides a comprehensive analysis of the politics that are implicit and explicit in Nietzsche's work. Tracy B. Strong's discussion shows that Nietzsche's writings are of a piece and have as their common goal a politics of transfiguration: a politics that seeks radical change in how human beings live and act in the modern Western world. This edition includes a new introduction that demonstrates how the styles of Nietzsche's writings expand our notions of democratic politics and democratic understanding.
