Nietzsche and Philosophy
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| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
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| Original title | Nietzsche et la philosophie |
| Translator | Hugh Tomlinson |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 221 (Columbia University Press edition) |
| ISBN | 0-231-05669-9 (English edition) |
Nietzsche and Philosophy (French: Nietzsche et la philosophie) is a 1962 book about Friedrich Nietzsche by philosopher Gilles Deleuze, in which Deleuze treats Nietzsche as a systematically coherent philosopher. It is a celebrated and influential work.
Summary
Deleuze treats Nietzsche as a systematically coherent philosopher, giving serious consideration to the concepts of the will to power and the eternal return.[1]
Reception
Nietzsche and Philosophy became a celebrated work.[2] According to Ronald Bogue, its publication marked a significant turning-point in French philosophy, which had previously given little consideration to Nietzsche as a serious philosopher. It was the first French study of Nietzsche to treat him as a systematically coherent philosopher, and raised questions that became central to Nietzsche studies and to French post-structuralism. Many of the central themes of Deleuze's later work were first stated in the work.[1]
Michael Tanner finds Nietzsche and Philosophy "quite wild about Nietzsche, but interesting about Deleuze."[2] Daniel W. Smith identifies the book as "one of the most important and influential, as well as idiosyncratic, readings of Nietzsche to have appeared in Europe."[3] Philosopher Hans Sluga writes that Nietzsche and Philosophy may have been an influence on Michel Foucault: he suggests that the work helped Foucault to discover Nietzsche as a "genealogical thinker, the philosopher of the will to power."[4]
See also
References
Footnotes
- 1 2 Bogue 1989. p. 15.
- 1 2 Tanner 1994. p. 83.
- ↑ Smith 1997. p. vii.
- ↑ Sluga 2003. p. 224.
Bibliography
- Books
- Bogue, Ronald (1989). Deleuze and Guattari. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-02443-9.
- Sluga, Hans (2003). Gutting, Gary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-60053-8.
- Smith, Daniel W.; Klossowski, Pierre (1997). Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-44387-6.
- Tanner, Michael (1994). Nietzsche. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-287680-5.
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