More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and
his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous
views-the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the UEbermensch,
the master morality-often seem incomprehensible or, worse,
repugnant. Yet he remains a thinker of singular importance, a great
opponent of Hegel and Kant, and the source of much that is powerful
in figures as diverse as Wittgenstein, Derrida, Heidegger, and many
recent American philosophers. Alexander Nehamas provides the best
possible guide for the perplexed. He reveals the single thread
running through Nietzsche's views: his thinking of the world on the
model of a literary text, of people as if they were literary
characters, and of knowledge and science as if they were literary
interpretation. Beyond this, he advances the clarity of the concept
of textuality, making explicit some of the forces that hold texts
together and so hold us together. Nehamas finally allows us to see
that Nietzsche is creating a literary character out of himself,
that he is, in effect, playing the role of Plato to his own
Socrates. Nehamas discusses a number of opposing views, both
American and European, of Nietzsche's texts and general project,
and reaches a climactic solving of the main problems of Nietzsche
interpretation in a step-by-step argument. In the process he takes
up a set of very interesting questions in contemporary philosophy,
such as moral relativism and scientific realism. This is a book of
considerable breadth and elegance that will appeal to all curious
readers of philosophy and literature.
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