220 pages • Publisher Carleton University Press

Edited by Tom Darby, Béla Egyed and Ben Jones

Description

New readings and perspectives on Nietzsche’s work are brought together in this collection of essays by prominent scholars from North America and Europe. They question whether Nietzsche’s work and the conventional interpretation of it is rhetorical and nihilistic.

Table of contents

Foreword
Ben Jones

INTRODUCTION
Tracking Nihilism: Heidegger to Nietzsche to Derrida
Béla Egyed

Nihilism: Reactive and Active
Gianni Vattimo

Nihilism and Autobiography
Jean-Michel Rey

Nietzsche and Biblical Nihilism
Thomas J.J. Altizer

Language to the Limit
Claude Lévesque

The Deconstruction of the Tradition: Nietzsche and the Greeks
Tracy B. Strong

The Nietzschean Interpretation … of Freud as Thought on the Fragmentary, as Fragmented Thought
Lise Monette

Minoritarian Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Nihilism
Constantin V. Boundas

Passing-A-Way-Of-The-Child
François Peraldi

Eurotaoism
Peter Sloterdijk

With the “Nightwatchman of Greek Philosophy”: Nietzsche’s Way to Cynicism
Horst Hutter

“Nihilism: ‘Thus Speaks Physiology’ ”
Richard S.G. Brown

Remarks on Nietzsche’s ‘Platonism’
Stanley Rosen

Nihilism and Technology
Barry Cooper

Zarathustra, Nihilism and the Drama of Wisdom
David Goicoechea

Afterword On the Coincidence of Our Preoccupation With Nietzsche
Tom Darbyv

List of Texts Cited

Contributors