Nietzsche’s Immoralism Politics as First Philosophy

“Nietzsche’s Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy, provides an argument that Nietzsche’s postmoral philosophy offers a metapolitics that does not rely on moral persuasion. ... Miyasaki presents the two volumes as a case for a socialist politics as the proper mode of breeding a type with the capacity for amor fati. He is committed to the consequences of radical fatalism as the result of Nietzsche’s critique of morality.” (Paul Kirkland, The Review of Politics, Vol. 86 (3), 2024)

“Donovan Miyasaki’s new book, the first of two volumes of masterful Nietzsche scholarship, has come at the perfect time for those interested in Nietzsche’s relation to political thought. … The book is at its strongest when it is explaining and interpreting Nietzsche’s thought, from elaborating his hard in compatibilist determinism to demonstrating the implicitly left-wing commitments of his core philosophy. Miyasaki consistently offers close and careful readings of Nietzsche’s work to back up his arguments in a highly convincing manner.” (Paul Gorby, Marx & Philosophy Reviews of Books, marxandphilosophy.org.uk, March 23, 2023)