NIETZSCHEAN SUBJECT

ISBN: 9780739150887 Géneros: HPQ:HPK Sinópsis: Based upon an attentive reading of Nietzsche39s writings and situated within a framework derived largely from such postNietzschean thinkers as Deleuze Guattari Klossowski Foucault Derrida Negri and Sloterdijk this study develops a treatment of Nietzsche39s 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 Nietzsche39s 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 worldspirit Nietzsche39s 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 Nietzsche39s style and discourse the second part of the study is directed more particularly to the historicocritical relationships between Nietzsche and his various precursors and heirs Despite his frequent and often exorbitant to originality Nietzsche39s intellectual proximity to the culture of the sophists the Renaissance world of Machiavelli and the poetphilosopher Holderlin demonstrates a longstanding tendency within Western thought towards what in Nietzsche39s hands would eventually culminate in a counterphilosophy of pure becoming later to be more