Contesting Nietzsche

In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the agon. Analysing an impressive array of primary and secondary sources and synthesising decades of Nietzsche scholarship, she shows how the agon, or contest, organised core areas of Nietzsche's philosophy, providing a new appreciation of the subtleties of his notorious views about power.