Interpreting Nietzsche: Reception and Influence

Ashley Woodward

6/2011 · A&C Black

Táto e‑kniha

Helping students and researchers get to grips with the work of this compelling but often baffling thinker, this introductory guide surveys the impact and continuing influence of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche on modern European thought.

Interpreting Nietzsche explores how some of the most important thinkers of the 20th century have responded to the legacy of his writings. Each chapter focuses on how Nietzsche's work has been read by such major figures as:

Martin Heidegger
Jacques Derrida
Giles Deleuze
Luce Irigaray
Gianni Vattimo

Encouraging students to take their studies further, each chapter also includes annotated guides to further primary and secondary reading.

O autorovi

Ashley Woodward teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia. He is the author of Nihilism in Postmodernity (The Davies Group, 2010), a co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), and a regular editor for Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.