Promotional Information

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

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Translation Translator's Note Abbreviations of Nietzsche's WOrks 1. The Tragic 2. Active and Reactive 3. Critique 4. From Ressentiment to the Bad Conscience 5. The Overman: Against the Dialective Conclusion Notes

About the Author

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes-St. Denis. He wrote several seminal philosophical works, including Difference and Repetition, and, with Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus, and What Is Philosophy?Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance studies at Duke University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy and the coauthor (with Antonio Negri) of Empire and Multitude.Hugh Tomlinson is also the translator of other works by Deleuze, including Bergonism and Cinema 2: The Time Image.

Reviews

Overall, the book is a treasure of philosophical apercus. Choice