Why We Are Not Nietzscheans

Name: Why We Are Not Nietzscheans
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ISBN: 9780226244808

ISBN-10: 0226244806

ISBN-13: 9780226244808

Edition: 1997

Authors: Luc Ferry, Alain Renaut, Robert de Loaiza

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"To think with Nietzsche against Nietzsche." Thus the editors describe the strategy adopted in this volume to soften the destructive effects of Nietzsche's "philosophy with a hammer" on French philosophy since the 1960s. Frustrated by the infinite inclusiveness of deconstructionism, the contributors to this volume seek to renew the Enlightenment quest for rationality. Though linked by no common dogma, these essays all argue that the "French Nietzsche" transmitted through the deconstructionists must be reexamined in light of the original context in which Nietzsche worked. Each essay questions the viability of Nietzsche's thought in the modern world, variously critiquing his philosophy of…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/9/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.93" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Luc Ferry has taught at the Sorbonne and at the University of Caen and is the former Minister of Youth, National Education, and Research in the French government. He is the author or coauthor of eight previous books published by the University of Chicago Press, including, most recently, The New Ecological Order and Man Made God.



Preface to the 1991 French Edition



Hierarchy and Truth




The Brute, the Sophist, and the Aesthete: "Art in the Service of Illusion"




Nietzsche's French Moment




"What Must First Be Proved Is Worth Little"




The Nietzschean Metaphysics of Life




Nietzsche as Educator




The Traditional Paradigm


Horror of Modernity and Antiliberalism: Nietzsche in Reactionary Rhetoric



Index