1st Edition

Nietzsche's French Legacy

By Alan Schrift Copyright 1995
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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;

Biography

Alan D. Schrift

"This book offers a careful, lucid account of poststructuralism's Nietzschean lineage. . ." -- Phillips, University of Toronto