Nietzsche and Philosophy / Edition 2

by Gilles Deleuze

Overview

Demonstrates how Nietzsche initiated a new mode of philosophical thinking. First published in 1962, this landmark book is one of the first to dispute the deep-seated assumption that dialectics provides the only possible basis for radical thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900231138771
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/16/2006
Series:	Columbia Classics in Philosophy
Edition description:	Columbia Classics edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

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

Overall, the book is a treasure of philosophical apercus.

Choice

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

— Viola Brisolin

The European Legacy