Nietzsche and the Rhetoric of Nihilism : Essays on Interpretation, Language and Politics

New readings and perspectives on Nietzsche's work are brought together in this collection of essays by prominent scholars from North America and Europe. They question whether Nietzsche's work and the conventional interpretation of it is rhetorical and nihilistic. CONTENTS FOREWORD NOTE ON ANNOTATION INTRODUCTION Tracking Nihilism: Heidegger to Nietzsche to Derrida Nihilism: Reactive and Active Nihilism and Autobiography Nietzsche and Biblical Nihilism Language to the Limit The Deconstruction of the Tradition: Nietzsche and the Greeks The Nietzschean Interpretation . . . of Freud as Thought on the Fragmentary, as Fragmented Thought Minoritarian Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Nihilism Passing-a-Way-of-the-Child Eurotaoism With the "Nightwatchman of Greek Philosophy": Nietzsche's Way to Cynicism Nihilism: "Thus Speaks Physiology" Remarks on Nietzsche's Platonism Nihilism and Technology Zarathustra, Nihilism and the Drama of Wisdom AFTERWORD On the Coincidence of Our Preoccupation with Nietzsche LIST OF WORKS CITED CONTRIBUTORS