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:	462,011
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 Note
Abbreviations of Nietzsche's WOrks
1. The Tragic
2. Active and Reactive
3. Critique
4. From Ressentiment to the Bad Conscience
5. The Overman: Against the Dialective
Conclusion
Notes

What People are Saying About This

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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