Gary Shapiro is the Tucker-Boatwright Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Richmond. He is the author of many books, including Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel and Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying.
"For some time now, Shapiro (Univ. of Richmond) has been one of the
most thoughtful and innovative writers on Nietzsche, and Shapiro's
earlier works, including Nietzschean Narratives (1989) and Alcyone
(CH, May'92, 29-5059), are essential reading for anyone who is
drawn to Nietzsche's astonishing ideas or his brilliant sense of
style. Shapiro's new volume offers another profound discussion of
Nietzsche, this one focused on his thinking about nature, his
continuing relevance as an important political thinker, and his
account of the radical conflict between different global
civilizations. Shapiro is himself an excellent writer, and
publication of this book is an important event in contemporary
Nietzsche scholarship. Chapters cover a variety of different but
related themes, including globalization, the end of history, the
great politics, modern ideas, post-theology, nomads, hybrids, and
what Nietzsche called "the century of the multitude." Shapiro also
situates Nietzsche in relation to recent thinkers like Badiou,
Agamben, Deleuze, and Foucault. Overall, Nietzsche's Earth does an
excellent job of showing how Nietzsche remains contemporary, and
how his thought still illuminates the world of the early 21st
century, with all of its complexities and struggles. Shapiro makes
it clear why Nietzsche must still be read. Highly recommended."--
"CHOICE" (5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM)
"Gary Shapiro's remarkable new book draws attention to and
articulates the many ways in which Nietzsche celebrates the actual
earthen characteristics of
human habitats: the concrete places, locales, climates, and
environments that sustain our dwelling on earth. Here, geology and
geography are brought to bear and expanded into an enriched,
meaning-laden 'geo-philosophy.'... [A] brilliant analysis of how
Nietzsche's thought can be brought to bear on urgent
planetary questions facing our own time on earth."-- "Journal of
the History of Philosophy"
"Shapiro's scholarly book is written with passion and wit...It
exhibits an admirable honesty, as when it acknowledges that not
every Nietzschean text fits his thesis of a strong earth/world
contrast...Readers of Nietzsche, whether friendly or hostile (or
both), will benefit from Nietzsche's Earth."-- "Review of
Metaphysics"
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