A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy

Nietzsche was wrong to repudiate democracy, since democratic politics can be more amenable to his own way of thiking than he imagined. Yet Nietzsche was right to expose fundamental flaws in traditional democratic theory, especially the modernist emphasis on human equality, rational subjectivity, and natural rights.
Democratic politics need not be based on egalitarianism or essentialism and need not be identified with a conformist mediocrity: democracy can instead be construed as an agonistic pluralism and an unrestricted meritocracy, both of which are consonant with NIetzsche's outlook.

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