The question of Nietzsche's use of political theory has a long and vexed history. The
contributors of this book re-situate debates around the notion of difference in relation to
historical and scholarly concerns but with a view to the current political context. Given that
today we are faced with a host of political challenges of domination and resistance the
question raised in this volume is how Nietzsche helps us to think through and to address some
of the problems. The authors also discuss how his writings complicate our desire for swift
solutions to seemingly intractable problems: how to resist slavishness in thought and action
how to maintain hard-won civil liberties and rights in the face of encroaching hegemonic
discourses practices and forces or how to counteract global environmental degradation in
short how to oppose 'totalitarian' movements of homogenization universalization equalization
and instead to affirm both politically and ontologically a culture of difference.
