Nietzsche and Philosophy

by Gilles Deleuze, Hugh Tomlinson (Translator), Michael Hardt (Foreword by)

Overview

Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche's philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation. Yet this is more than a major work on Nietzsche: the book opened a whole new avenue in post-war thought. Here Deleuze shows how Nietzsche began a new way of thinking which breaks with the dialectic as a method and escapes the confines of philosophy itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231056694
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/20/1985
Series:	Columbia Classics in Philosophy
Edition description:	Columbia Classics edition
Pages:	221
Sales rank:	242,938
Product dimensions:	5.37(w) x 8.21(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gilles Deleuze was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes St. Denis. He is the author of Difference and Repitition, Empiricism and Subjectivity, Logic of Sense, Negotiations 1972-1990, and Why Philosophy? (with Felix Guattari)-- all published in the European Perspectives series.Hugh Tomlinson, the translator, studied at the University of Paris, attending Deleuze's seminars.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Translation
Translator's Notes
Abbreviations of Nietzsche's Works
The Tragic
The Concept of Genealogy
Sense
The Philosophy of the Will
Against the Dialectic
The Problem of Tragedy
Nietzsche's Evolution
Dionysus and Christ
The Essence of the Tragic
The Problem of Existence
Existence and Innocence
The Dicethrow
Consequences for the Eternal Return
Nietzsche's Symbolism
Nietzsche and Mallarme
Tragic Thought
The Touchstone
Active and Reactive
The Body
The Distinction of Forces
Quantity and Quality
Nietzsche and Science
First Aspect of the Eternal Return: as cosmological and physical doctrine
What is the Will to Power
Nietzsche's Terminology
Origin and Inverted Image
The Problem of the Measure of Forces
Hierarchy
Will to Power and Feeling of Power
The Becoming-Reactive of Forces
Ambivalence of Sense and of Values
Second Aspect of the Eternal Return: as ethical and selective thought
The Problem of the Eternal Return
Critique
Transformation of the Sciences of Man
The Form of the Question in Nietzsche
Nietzsche's Method
Against his Predecessors
Against Pessimism and against Shopenhauer
Principles for the Philosophy of the Will
Plan of The Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche and Kant from the Point of View of Principles
Realisation of Critique
Nietzsche and Kant from the Point of View of Consequences
The Concept of Truth
Knowledge, Morality and Religion
Thought and Life
Art
New Image of Thought
From Ressentiment to the Bad Conscience
Reaction and Ressentiment
Principle and Ressentiment
Typology and Ressentiment
Characteristics of Ressentiment
Is he Good? Is he Evil?
The Paralogism
Development of Ressentiment: the Judaic priest
Bad Conscience and Interiority
The Problem of Pain
Development of Bad Conscience: The Christian priest
Culture Considered from the Prehistoric Point of View
Culture Considered from the Post-Historic Point of View
Culture Considered from the Historical Point of View
Bad Conscience, Responsibility, Guilt
The Ascetic Ideal and the Essence of Religion
Triumph of Reactive Forces
The Overman: Against the Dialectic
Nihilism
Analysis of Pity
God is Dead
Against Hegelianism
The Avatars of the Dialectic
Nietzsche and the Dialectic
Theory of the Higher Man
Is Man Essentially "Reactive"?
Nihilism and Transmutation: the focal point
Affirmation and Negation
The Sense of Affirmation
The Double Affirmation: Ariadne
Dionysus and Zarathustra
Conclusion
Notes

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Times Higher Education Supplement

Deleuze's book offers an extremely rich and systematic reading of Nietzsche.... To read Nietzsche and Philosophy is to experience the earnestness of Nietzsche's challenge to Western philosophy.

Time Magazines Higher Education Supplement

Deleuze's book offers an extremely rich and systematic reading of Nietzsche.... To read Nietzsche and Philosophy is to experience the earnestness of Nietzsche's challenge to Western philosophy.

Editorial Reviews

The fecundity of this reading and the breadth of its implications can hardly be overestimated.

The European Legacy - Viola Brisolin

The fecundity of this reading and the breadth of its implications can hardly be overestimated.

— Viola Brisolin

The European Legacy

Overall, the book is a treasure of philosophical apercus.

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