Why Nietzsche Loved Napoleon

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Why Nietzsche Loved Napoleon?
Napoleon a Weltgeist?
Napoleon an Uebermensch?

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Nietzsche and Napoleon
The Dionysian Conspiracy
Don Dombowsky
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This study demonstrates how Nietzsche's political thought is an outgrowth of his reflections on Napoleon Bonaparte's personality, political reign and method of governance.

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Nietzsche admired Napoleon's manipulation of the democratic process, abandonment of the concept of popular sovereignty, and undermining of the principle of equality1. Nietzsche also described Napoleon as an artist who used the public arena as the medium on which he practiced his art, presenting himself as an exemplar of humanity and inspiring others to seek their own path to excellence.

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Why Nietzsche considered Napoleon as near the Uebermensch?
Nietzsche show some examples of people who are in proximity with the Ubermensch. This people are still human all to human, but they are Higher Man.

Napoleon is one of this examples.

Why Nietzsche liked so much Napoleon to considering him near to the Ubermensch?

What qualities the french man has to be putted as a Higher Man that is near to the Overman?

Napol;on was a higher type of politician, someone who can take advantage of any situation. He was also fearless, and his close staff of high generals were also of the type of higher men. There's so many stories about them that are unbelievable, like when they took the only bridge of Vienna (that was geared with explosive everywhere to stop the advance of the French reinforcement) by walking over the other side, just the two commanding officers, and convincing the Austrians that the war was over and that a peace treaty had been promulgated, all the while having men take the bridge over discreetly.

The Napoleonic wars are full of that kind of anecdotes, insane bravery and cunning tactics. It wasn't just on the military front either, Napoleon was a very complete politician who reformed entirely the law, created innovative institutions, established a new nobility after the Revolution (while making peace with the old one), helped the arts and science (archeology started with his conquest of Egypt), etc...

He took France at its lowest, when it was bloodied and in shambles by the chaos brought by the Revolution, and reformed it in very little time. I think it's really hard to imagine for us how quick than man changed the fate of a whole nation. He shaped Europe too by exporting the Nationalist ideal (way before Nazism, when it meant unifying each people in their own state, as opposed to being led by local nobility and the rules of weddings and heredity).

Finally, he conquered most of Europe (with th exception of Russia and England obviously). He put French rulers in most countries, sometimes his generals, or sometimes his own family. He dismantled the Holy German Empire, even though history decided it wasn't completely over yet.

But the most important part I think is that he gave Europe an Heroism to believe in, and which shaped the rest of the 19th century. The Romantic movement that starts in the 1830s for example is often explained as the deception over the greatness he promised. People hoped for a radical change, and when a generation after that they still had to fight for their republics, they were disillusioned. At the same time, colonialism strived with the adventurous imagery that was in everyone's mind. The end of the century saw a comeback of the nationalist ideal, but it had turned to bitterness by that point and the great hopes of freedom had been distorted into the justification of xenophobia.

Everything I described existed before Napoleon, it was the kind of stuff you'd expect from Nobility, but the French revolution had shown a different aspect of politic that was very ugly. Tyranny, or how an entire social system can go down for good in a very short time was menacing everywhere. Napol;on got France (and Europe) back on the track of what was expected from Western civilization.

Part of what I wrote is myth or exaggeration, but again, it's the idea of a great statesman with a capital S that comes and motivates an entire civilization to go forward. And at the same time, he was hated by his ennemies in a way that isn't dissimilar to Hitler. What is sure is that he was a historical event, that, I think, was very apparent to anyone.

Edit: I didn't mention it but it's important in regards to the Ubermensch, but he wasn't afraid to seize power. He came at a time where head of the "enemies of the people" were rolling left and right but he went straight for the top power anyway. He forced a triumvirate, did his coup d'etat, crowned himself Emperor (the Pope came to give the benediction, but Napol;on crowned himself during the ceremony...). The guy had ambition and he went all the way, it's important to have this kind of characters imo.

He created his own value and meaning. He had an entire planet that would have told him to keep his head down if he had asked them for advice, but he didn’t ask them for advice, he rose beyond them all.

Uber means above, and Napoleon single-handedly raised himself from nothing to near-God.

Crime and Punishment moment

Napoleon (I am) Dynamite is the Uebermensch.

ok, but why he is the Uebermensch?

Pretty brilliant, although the 'dynamite' described was Nietzsche himself, and not an exemplar of this. Ecce Homo, I think.,

Nietzsche did admire Napoleon. We can only guess what he would have felt about the twentieth century Napoleons. Hitler and Stalin.

Stalin was nothing like Napoleon. He was a gangster who attained power when the rest of the communist party was hand wringing about how to continue communist project. Stalin didn't conquer anything with sheer wit and bravery.

Hitler was at least was a soldier and did bring Germany from the brink.

Nietzsche, per his letters penned near death, claimed to have lived previously as Napolean...and others.

Analysis should include the full narrative, not bits and pieces.

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Abstract
The article examines the formation of Nietzsche's view of Napoleon as a Renaissance man, and its importance for Nietzsche's thought. Stendhal, with his image of Napoleon, exercised a crucial influence on Nietzsche, who was, thanks to Burckhardt, already full of admiration for the Renaissance. Special attention is given to Stendhal's Vie de Napol;on, which provided Nietzsche with a key to Napoleon as the continuator of the Renaissance and the man who again revived antiquity, a hero of Plutarchian proportions. Taine's influence is also analyzed, for he provided the final stimulus for Nietzsche's concluding conception of Napoleon as a Renaissance man, as well as helping Nietzsche to realize the closeness between the ;bermensch and Napoleon. The significance of Napoleon for Nietzsche's conceptualization of historical greatness is emphasized, as well as the features of the Corsican hero that make him the embodiment of Nietzsche's emulative understanding of history: the mirror image of a model active man from the second Untimely Meditation.

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History of Political Thought (HPT) is a quarterly journal which was launched in 1980 to fill a genuine academic need for a forum for work in this multidisciplinary area. Although a subject central to the study of politics and history, researchers in this field had previously to compete for publication space in journals whose intellectual centres of gravity were located in other disciplines.