Nietzsche's French Legacy
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415911478 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
E. Brians said Careful, Illuminating and Necessary Scholarship. The claim of the book is not to explicate Nietzsche per se (though it does a good job of that along the way), but rather to examine how Nietzsche was taken up by a specific twentieth century French tradition, usually identified as post-structuralist or deconstructionist. For anyone working on Deleuze, Derrida or Foucault, this book will be invaluable for understanding the philosophical background that informs their work.Shcrift does an excellent job of situating the twentieth century French reception of Nietzsche both philosophically and historically. In doing so, Schr. Incomplete There are some things worth learning in this book. However, the characters reviewed are all postmodernists. Schrift is utterly tolerant of the lunacy most of them write. In fact, Schrift is one of the postmodernizers of Nietzsche. He wants Nietzsche to worship at the feet of Derrida along with himself. Schrift does not review, for example, Alain Finkielkraut, who is more popular in France than any of the PoMo big shots, and who does not share their opinion of Nietzsche. He ignores Julien Benda as well. And he never mentions Clement Rossett -- who had the temerity to po
"This book offers a careful, lucid account of poststructuralism's Nietzschean lineage "-Phillips, University of Toronto