Nietzsche's French legacy : a genealogy of poststructuralism

Author(s)

• Schrift, Alan D.

Bibliographic Information

Nietzsche's French legacy : a genealogy of poststructuralism

Alan D. Schrift

Routledge, 1995

Note

Bibliography: p. [165]-182

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780415911467

Description

Friedrich Nietzsche is cited as the philosopher who anticipates the philosophical themes that have dominated French theory since structuralism. Informed by developments in both contemporary French philosophy and Nietzsche scholarship, this study provides an examination of the way the French have appropriated Nietzsche in developing their own critical projects. Using Nietzsche's thought as a springboard, this study aims to makes accessible the ideas of some of the most important and difficult of contemporary French poststructuralist theorists.

Volume

ISBN 9780415911474

Description

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 French philosophy 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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Derrida
• Chapter 2 Foucault
• Chapter 3 Deleuze Putting Nietzsche to Work
• Chapter 4 Cixous
• Chapter 5 Why the French are no Longer Nietzscheans

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Details

• NCID: BA27343249
• ISBN:
  • 041591146X
  • 0415911478
• LCCN: 95014607
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 198 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B2421
  • DC20 : 193
  • NDC8 : 134.9
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Influence
  • LCSH : Philosophy, French -- 20th century