“Donovan Miyasaki’s new book, the first of two volumes of masterful Nietzsche scholarship, has come at the perfect time for those interested in Nietzsche’s relation to political thought ... Miyasaki consistently offers close and careful readings of Nietzsche’s work to back up his arguments in a highly convincing manner. Having read Miyasaki’s book, it is difficult to imagine reading Nietzsche any other way.” --Marx & Philosophy Reviews of Books, March 23, 2023 "Miyasaki’s two volumes represent a novel and important incursion into this highly contested field.... While there is much that is controversial in Miyasaki’s interpretation of Nietzsche, it is developed through close reading of key texts and rigorous engagement with a range of contemporary Nietzsche scholarship.... These two volumes make an important contribution to ongoing efforts to understand Nietzsche’s political philosophy and to develop a version that is useful to socialism." --Ethics134, no. 2 (January 2024): 309-15
“This is a thoughtful, provocative, important study that breaks new ground in efforts to bridge Nietzsche’s philosophy with democratic life and politics. Miyasaki argues that Nietzsche harbors a coherent political philosophy that we should draw from. Moreover, he maintains that proposing an agonistic alternative to egalitarianism conceals significant ways in which conflict and equality are not antithetical to each other. This is a significant contribution to Nietzsche studies that should prompt productive discussion. Highly recommended.” --Lawrence J. Hatab, Old Dominion, Springer Website
Politics After Morality Toward a Nietzschean Left (part II in a two-volume series) “Donovan Miyasaki has delivered a bold new treatment of Nietzsche’s contribution to political philosophy. Taking quite seriously the strongly fatalistic strains of Nietzsche’s late writings, Miyasaki forwards an original interpretation of Nietzsche’s ‘immoralism’ as an exercise in first philosophy. In this, the first of two impressive volumes, Miyasaki carefully builds the case for receiving Nietzsche not as a moral philosopher in any traditional or conventional sense, but as a proponent of historical materialism. Clearly written, expertly articulated, and thoroughly researched, Nietzsche’s Immoralism will be of great interest to students and scholars alike.” --Daniel Conway, Texas A&M, Springer Website
"Nietzsche’s politics continue to fascinate. After Kaufmann’s successful efforts to wrangle him free from his appropriation by the Nazis.... After many book-length approaches by Strong, Conway, Ansell-Pearson, Clark, and others, Donovan Miyasaki has taken on the challenge again. The outcome is impressive." --The Agonist: A Nietzsche Circle Journal17, no. 2 (2023): 73-77
"The most radical political vision of a left Nietzschean form of Nietzschean socialism." --Journal of Nietzsche Studies55, no. 1 (2024): 97-104
"Nietzsche’s Hermeneutics of Seduction.” In Nietzsche y la hermenéutica, edited by F. Arenas-Dolz, Luca Giancristofaro, Paolo Stellino. Valencia: Nau Llibres, 2007.