{"product_id":"nietzsche-and-kant-as-thinkers-of-antagonism-towards-a-philosophy-of-conflict-paperback","title":"Nietzsche and Kant as Thinkers of Antagonism: Towards a Philosophy of Conflict - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHerman Siemens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonistic theories in recent years and remains the main source of the impasse between them. This open access book seeks to break this impasse by going back to their sources in Kant (for deliberative theories) and Nietzsche (for agonisms) and reframing them as\u003ci\u003e philosophers of conflict\u003c\/i\u003e. For both philosophers, conflict is part of the 'deep structure' of reality at all levels, and their reflections on its constitutive, constructive and destructive potentials raise fundamental questions that democratic theories can ill afford to ignore. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through a series of text-based comparative studies of Kant's and Nietzsche's philosophies of conflict, Herman Siemens addresses the central question of the book: What does it take to think of conflict, real opposition or contradiction as an intrinsic dimension of reality? Drawing on Kant's pre-critical writings and his historical-philosophical texts and Nietzsche's philosophical physiology and the will to power, chapters examine topics such as logical opposition (contradiction) versus real opposition (\u003ci\u003eRealrepugnanz\u003c\/i\u003e); idealism as philosophical warfare; the relation between war and peace; destructive versus constructive forms of conflict; resistance as a stimulant; Kant's 'unsociable sociability' and Nietzsche's 'fine, well-planned, thoughtful egoism'; hatred, revenge and the 'slave revolt in morality'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Dutch Research Council.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerman Siemens \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior University Lecturer in the History of Modern Philosophy at Leiden University, the Netherlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42213078827088,"sku":"9781350347199","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/uxmCqjLfB29781350347199.webp?v=1776005448","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/nietzsche-and-kant-as-thinkers-of-antagonism-towards-a-philosophy-of-conflict-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}