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The Nietzschean Subject - Toward a Praxis of Becoming (Hardcover)
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The Nietzschean Subject - Toward a Praxis of Becoming (Hardcover)
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Based upon an attentive reading of Nietzsche's writings and
situated within a framework derived largely from such
post-Nietzschean thinkers as Deleuze, Guattari, Klossowski,
Foucault, Derrida, Negri, and Sloterdijk, this study develops a
treatment of Nietzsche's philosophical enterprise as constituting a
materialist metaphysics of pure becoming, of pure immanence and the
power of the virtual. It thus seeks to challenge traditional
characterizations of Nietzsche as laying claim either to the end of
metaphysics or the circular repetition of the same. The study
instead argues that Nietzsche's great conceptual triumvirate of the
eternal return, the will to power, and the transvaluation of values
be recast as invoking the groundless ground of a subjectless
subject and, indeed, the repetition of difference rather than
sameness. Distinguishing itself from the representational schemes
set forth by the Platonic idea, the Christian God, or Hegelian
reason and world-spirit, Nietzsche's undertaking is here
characterized, rather, as inaugurating the age of energies and
establishing a generative metaphysics no longer amenable to the
inner essence of the concept or the inner soul of consciousness.
While the first part of the study develops the philosophical
background for this reappraisal of the Nietzschean enterprise,
along with an accompanying treatment of the specific problems posed
by Nietzsche's style and discourse, the second part of the study is
directed more particularly to the historico-critical relationships
between Nietzsche and his various precursors and heirs. Despite his
frequent and often exorbitant to originality, Nietzsche's
intellectual proximity to the culture of the sophists, the
Renaissance world of Machiavelli, and the poet-philosopher
Hoelderlin demonstrates a long-standing tendency within Western
thought towards what in Nietzsche's hands would eventually
culminate in a counter-philosophy of pure becoming, later to be
more fully realized in the writings of Nietzsche's greatest and
most overlooked heir of the early-twentieth century, the Viennese
novelist Robert Musil. The study thus spans a line extending from
the Presocratics to postmodernity, with Nietzsche's great
philosophical project serving as its essential fulcrum.
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