Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche's philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation. Yet this is more than a major work on Nietzsche: the book opened a whole new avenue in post-war thought. Here Deleuze shows how Nietzsche began a new way of thinking which breaks with the dialectic as a method and escapes the confines of philosophy itself.
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The fecundity of this reading and the breadth of its implications can hardly be overestimated.
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Deleuze's book offers an extremely rich and systematic reading of Nietzsche.... To read Nietzsche and Philosophy is to experience the earnestness of Nietzsche's challenge to Western philosophy.
(Times Higher Education Supplement ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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i first picked up nietzsche and philosophy in 1989 and couldnt make it past the first chapter which discusses theories of forces,semiotics, and other unintelligable things..i regarded the book as 'hyper abstract'..
I returned again to it in 1996 after reading deleuze's interviews, and, with a more general understanding of his ideas,the book became a revelation for me.
Deleuze presents a systematic and coherent philosophy for nietzsche, one which grounds his rather paradoxical and sometimes enigmatic writings. deleuze clearly expresses nietzsche's core concerns, showing the sanity and genius of this sometimes denigrated 'mad' philosopher.
Its a pity this book will never find itself in the self help section because thats where it belongs..Feeling depressed and worthless? A bit burnt out or indifferent? read this book! While most philosophy falls to the side with abstractions, nietzsche and philosophy goes after life itself , attacking every nihilistic habit in our psychic, social, and cosmological repetoire. Deleuze traces nietzsche's assertions on how we are reactive and despicable creatures and goes on to show why and how we can overcome, well, all those things that make humanity "the skin disease of earth'.....
so...since we all suffer from nihilism and its ailments, Nietzsche and philosophy provides antidotes and cure for our human condition...
below are some less than praiseworthy comments on this book..deleuze appropriates nietzsche, for example...or deleuze says simple things in a complicated manner...this is nonsense..
readers, this is not an easy book to grasp..its takes a few readings to fully understand whats being said..people who dont like this book just simply fail to understand it...or havent read it through at least once..
that may be the books fault..but if simple ideas are what one seeks, then try simplistic books. ..this isnt one of them
I returned again to it in 1996 after reading deleuze's interviews, and, with a more general understanding of his ideas,the book became a revelation for me.
Deleuze presents a systematic and coherent philosophy for nietzsche, one which grounds his rather paradoxical and sometimes enigmatic writings. deleuze clearly expresses nietzsche's core concerns, showing the sanity and genius of this sometimes denigrated 'mad' philosopher.
Its a pity this book will never find itself in the self help section because thats where it belongs..Feeling depressed and worthless? A bit burnt out or indifferent? read this book! While most philosophy falls to the side with abstractions, nietzsche and philosophy goes after life itself , attacking every nihilistic habit in our psychic, social, and cosmological repetoire. Deleuze traces nietzsche's assertions on how we are reactive and despicable creatures and goes on to show why and how we can overcome, well, all those things that make humanity "the skin disease of earth'.....
so...since we all suffer from nihilism and its ailments, Nietzsche and philosophy provides antidotes and cure for our human condition...
below are some less than praiseworthy comments on this book..deleuze appropriates nietzsche, for example...or deleuze says simple things in a complicated manner...this is nonsense..
readers, this is not an easy book to grasp..its takes a few readings to fully understand whats being said..people who dont like this book just simply fail to understand it...or havent read it through at least once..
that may be the books fault..but if simple ideas are what one seeks, then try simplistic books. ..this isnt one of them
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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contrary to some beliefs, gilles deleuze was NOT a psychoanalyst. in fact, neither was (strictly speaking) felix guattari. if anything, the "anti-oedipus" was set to univocally destroy without remission any notion of the psychoanalyst and his couch. nevertheless, it wouldn't be inaccurate to read nietzsche as a psychologist since he himself prided himself in that dimension among philosophers.
the amazing thing about "nietzsche and philosophy" is how deleuze does a nietzschean reading of nietzsche: basically in gathering the force of nietzsche's writings, appropriating them, and extending them without corrupting the radical implications of nietzsche's philosophy. here, deleuze remarkably reinterprets many of nietzsche's key concepts (the will to power, the eternal return, active and reactive forces) and creatively channels them into what was the initial stages of his own philosophical project. what would be striking to readers familiar with deleuze's later works (especially those with guattari) is the lucidity and rigour of his meticulous presentation here.
"nietzsche and philosophy" is illuminating precisely because it allows us to situate poststructuralist theories/thinkers and their relationship to nietzsche's writings. in particular, this book had a huge influence on michel foucault of which his debt to deleuze is outstanding, especially seen in his genealogical work from then till the end of his life.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Nietzsche was not a systematic thinker and so it is very difficult to construct a book on his difficult thought. Deleuze has, however, successfully accomplished that. A combined reading of this work and Pierre Klossowski's "Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle" would provide an understanding of Nietzsche that is well beyond what is presented in most books on the author. It is sad, but we english speakers have collectively written most of the bad literature on Nietzsche. It was the french after WWII that picked-up the mantle set forth by Nietzsche after the embarrassing abuse of his thought by the Nazis.
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A superb reading of Nietzsche and introduction to Deleuzean...
This is one of my very favorite books so this is going to be a very long review. I do, however, give some recommendations for supplementary reading for those who are struggling... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Brian C.
This one started it all
I was putting together my thesis on Nietzsche and, after pouring through the traditional secondary texts, was directed to Deleuze. Read more
Published on June 26, 2007 by R. Jordan Greenhall
Fine for people who know Nietzsche or philosophy
Nietzsche would be the primary example of a philosopher who produced his work without being subject to the limitations which a publisher who was aware of refined taste and the... Read more
Published on March 18, 2004 by Bruce P. Barten
Dire
There are two ways to read this book. It could be read as an attempt to present what Nietzsche thought, or the perhaps unconscious core of his thought, or it could be read as a... Read more
Published on September 23, 2003
Interpretation as Force
After having reading much of Neitzsche over the years, it was not until I read this little book by Deleuze that he really came alive for me. Read more
Published on March 20, 2002 by David S. Hale
Not an Introduction to Nietzschean Studies
This is a wonderful text - much more accessible than Anti-Oedipus; however, it is not a faithful representation of Nietzsche's philosophy. Read more
Published on March 26, 2000 by Micah Johnson
Great book, iffy translation
Probably the best book for getting into Deleuze's philosophy. Here you'll be introduced to the 'symptomatological' method of analyzing signs that runs throughout D. Read more
Published on January 22, 2000
a brilliant book.
this is "the" book u will ever want to read on Nietzsche and his philosophy. be prepared to fly beyond everything....
Published on June 15, 1999
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Nietzsche and Philosophy (French: Nietzsche et la philosophie) is a 1962 book by philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Its publication marked a significant turn in 20th-century French philosophy, which had to that point not considered Friedrich Nietzsche a serious philosopher. Nietzsche and Philosophy was the first French work to treat Nietzsche's philosophy as systematic and coherent, raising questions that would become central in Nietzsche studies and French post-structuralism generally. Within Nietzsche scholarship, the book was notable for giving serious consideration to the concepts of the will to power and the eternal return.
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Nietzsche's most general projects is the introduction of the concepts of sense and value into philosophy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reactive forces triumph, reactive apparatus, other reactive forces, reactive man, reactive nihilism, reactive life, negative nihilism, affirm chance, multiple affirmation, genealogical element, voluntary beggar, nihilistic perspective, shrewd word, species activity, pure affirmation, passive nihilism, higher man, several throws, second affirmation, eternal return, becoming reactive, ratio essendi, ratio cognoscendi, active destruction, ascetic ideal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Birth of Tragedy, Genealogy of Morals, Schopenhauer Educator, Ariadne's Complaint, Critique of Pure Reason, Culture Considered, The Awakening, The Convalescent New!
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Nietzsche's most general projects is the introduction of the concepts of sense and value into philosophy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reactive forces triumph, reactive apparatus, other reactive forces, reactive man, reactive nihilism, reactive life, negative nihilism, affirm chance, multiple affirmation, genealogical element, voluntary beggar, nihilistic perspective, shrewd word, species activity, pure affirmation, passive nihilism, higher man, several throws, second affirmation, eternal return, becoming reactive, ratio essendi, ratio cognoscendi, active destruction, ascetic ideal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Birth of Tragedy, Genealogy of Morals, Schopenhauer Educator, Ariadne's Complaint, Critique of Pure Reason, Culture Considered, The Awakening, The Convalescent New!
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- The Birth of Tragedy (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 17 pages
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- The Genealogy of Morals (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 5 pages
- Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 4 pages
- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on page 88, page 89, and page 91
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- Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May on 11 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Bernd Magnus on 10 pages
- Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by D. N. Rodowick on 8 pages
- A Deleuzian Century? by Ian Buchanan on 7 pages
- Deleuze on Literature (Deleuze and the Arts) by Ronald Bogue on 6 pages
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