Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and On the Genealogy of Morals [Hardcover]

In this long-awaited volume, David B. Allison argues for a generous approach to Nietzsche's writings, and then provides comprehensive analyses of Nietzsche'sThe Birth of Tragedy,The Gay Science,On the Genealogy of Morals, andThus Spoke Zarathustra. Unique among other books on Nietzsche, Allison's text includes individual chapters devoted to Nietzsche's principal works. Historically-oriented and continentally-informed, Allison's readings draw on French and German thinkers, such as Heidegger, Battaille, Derrida, Birault, and Deleuze, while the author explicitly resists the use of jargon that frequently characterizes those approaches.Reading the New Nietzscheis an outstanding resource for those reading Nietzsche for the first time as well as for those who wish to know him better.David B. Allisonis professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of the groundbreaking anthologyThe New Nietzsche.

David Allison enriches the reading of these key Nietzschean texts with helpful information and leads the reader to the philosophical issues at stake. His exposition is informed by the most sophisticated contemporary debates. First time as well as long time readers of Nietzsche will find they are discovering a Nietzsche writing for today. Al Lingis, Penn State University

It is the peculiar (and maybe cruel) fate of Friedrich Nietzsche to have, a hundred years post facto, an audience that is wide yet uncomprehending. David Allison's achievement in this lucid, graceful work is to restore both the difficulty and the warmth of Nietzsche's message: focusing on four key works, he extends the range of Nietzsche interpretation precisely by virtue of sanity, balance and, above all, humaneness. A new Nietzsche? More like the one who was there all along, waiting for the right reader. Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto

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