Image from Coce

Nietzsche's French legacy : a genealogy of poststructuralism / Alan D. Schrift.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1995Description: xviii, 198 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 041591146X
  • 9780415911467
  • 0415911478
  • 9780415911474
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194
LOC classification:
  • B2421 .S36 1995
Contents:
List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Derrida: The Critique of Oppositional Thinking and the Transvaluation of Values -- Ch. 2. Foucault: Genealogy, Power, and the Reconfiguration of the Subject -- Ch. 3. Deleuze: Putting Nietzsche to Work: Genealogy, Will to Power, and Other Desiring Machines -- Ch. 4. Cixous: On the Gift-Giving Virtue as Feminine Economy -- Ch. 5. Why the French Are No Longer Nietzscheans -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: "More than any other figure, Friedrich Nietzsche is cited as the philosopher who anticipates and previews the philosophical themes that have dominated French theory since structuralism. Informed by the latest developments in both contemporary French philosophy and Nietzsche scholarship, Alan Schrift's Nietzsche's French Legacy provides a detailed examination and analysis of the way the French have appropriated Nietzsche in developing their own critical projects. Using Nietzsche's thought as a springboard, this study makes accessible the ideas of some of the most important and difficult of contemporary French poststructuralist theorists including Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Helene Cixous. Through a careful analysis and close reading of the texts of Nietzsche and French poststructuralism, Schrift illuminates the ways in which Nietzsche's thought prefigures certain poststructuralist motifs. He demonstrates how several dominant themes in contemporary Frenchphilosophy emerge out of Nietzsche's own thinking. As one of the first books to critically examine the work of the new French anti-Nietzschean's, Schrift defends the value of poststructuralism and Nietzsche as critical resources for confronting the present."--Publisher description.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-182) and index.

List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Derrida: The Critique of Oppositional Thinking and the Transvaluation of Values -- Ch. 2. Foucault: Genealogy, Power, and the Reconfiguration of the Subject -- Ch. 3. Deleuze: Putting Nietzsche to Work: Genealogy, Will to Power, and Other Desiring Machines -- Ch. 4. Cixous: On the Gift-Giving Virtue as Feminine Economy -- Ch. 5. Why the French Are No Longer Nietzscheans -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"More than any other figure, Friedrich Nietzsche is cited as the philosopher who anticipates and previews the philosophical themes that have dominated French theory since structuralism. Informed by the latest developments in both contemporary French philosophy and Nietzsche scholarship, Alan Schrift's Nietzsche's French Legacy provides a detailed examination and analysis of the way the French have appropriated Nietzsche in developing their own critical projects. Using Nietzsche's thought as a springboard, this study makes accessible the ideas of some of the most important and difficult of contemporary French poststructuralist theorists including Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Helene Cixous. Through a careful analysis and close reading of the texts of Nietzsche and French poststructuralism, Schrift illuminates the ways in which Nietzsche's thought prefigures certain poststructuralist motifs. He demonstrates how several dominant themes in contemporary Frenchphilosophy emerge out of Nietzsche's own thinking. As one of the first books to critically examine the work of the new French anti-Nietzschean's, Schrift defends the value of poststructuralism and Nietzsche as critical resources for confronting the present."--Publisher description.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha