Introduction: The Dionysian Conspiracy
1. Sources, Cults and Criticism: Nietzsche’s Portrait of Napoleon
1. In the Gilded Orbit of the ‘Ideal Artists’
2. Nietzsche’s Napoleon: Against Thomas Carlyle’s Cult of the Hero
3. Nietzsche’s Napoleon: A Polemic
4. The Artist of Government
2. Aristocratic Radicalism as a Species of Bonapartism
1. From Character-type to Structure
2. Nietzsche’s Understanding of Bonapartism
3. Nietzsche and the Underlying Structures of the Bonapartist Empire (1799–1815)
4. Aristocratic Radicalism
3. Napoleon III: ‘déshonneur’
1. Caesarism
2. Nietzsche and the Underlying Structures of the Second Empire (1851–1870)
3. Nietzsche’s Rejection of Napoleon III
4. Nietzsche’s Immanent Critique of Bonapartism
5. Nietzsche’s Radical Bonapartist Alliance
Conclusion: The Imperial European Future
