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8Transvaluations: Nietzsche in France, 1872-1972 (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (3): 477-479. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Transvaluations: Nietzsche in France, 1872–1972 by Douglas SmithAlan D. SchriftDouglas Smith. Transvaluations: Nietzsche in France, 1872–1972. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 250. Cloth, $67.00.In a letter to his friend Heinrich Köselitz, Nietzsche described himself as “a battlefield more than a human being.” Douglas Smith appropriately frames his survey of Nietzsche’s reception in France with this image…Read more
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7Should Philosophers Still Read Mauss? Thoughts on Contemporary American PoliticsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (3): 389-400. 2014.ABSTRACT Following the publication of Derrida's Given Time, a great deal of philosophical attention was devoted to gifts and gift exchange as well as Marcel Mauss's Essay on the Gift. But after a certain formalization of the possible/impossible aporia of the gift, interest in Mauss's Essay among philosophers has largely disappeared. I return to Mauss's Essay and in particular to its moral, economic, and political conclusions to argue that Mauss makes several observations that relate directly to …Read more
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7Between Perspectivism and Philology: Genealogy as HermeneuticIn Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 1987, De Gruyter. pp. 91-111. 1986.
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7This volume covers the period between the 1890s and 1930s, a period that witnessed revolutions in the arts and society which set the agenda for the rest of the century. In philosophy, the period saw the birth of analytic philosophy, the development of new programmes and new modes of inquiry, the emergence of phenomenology as a new rigorous science, the birth of Freudian psychoanalysis, and the maturing of the discipline of sociology. This period saw the most influential work of a remarkable seri…Read more
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6Rethinking Exchange: Logics of the Gift in Cixous and NietzschePhilosophy Today 40 (1): 197-205. 1996.
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4On the Significance of Schrift’s Genealogy of Nietzsche’s PhilologyInternational Studies in Philosophy 20 (2): 97-103. 1988.
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4Nietzsche's Psycho-Genealogy: A Ludic Alternative to Heidegger's Reading of NietzscheJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 14 (3): 283-303. 1983.
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4Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second GenerationRoutledge. 2010."Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second Generation" analyses the major themes and developments in a period that brought continental philosophy to the forefront of scholarship in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines and that set the agenda for philosophical thought on the continent and elsewhere from the 1960s to the present. Focusing on the years 1960-1984, the volume examines the major figures associated with poststructuralism and the second generation of critical theo…Read more
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3Nietzschean Agonism and the Subject of Radical DemocracyPhilosophy Today 45 (Supplement): 153-163. 2001.
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3Poststructuralism and critical theory's second generationIn The History of Continental Philosophy, University of Chicago Press. 2010."Poststructuralism and Critical Theory's Second Generation" analyses the major themes and developments in a period that brought continental philosophy to the forefront of scholarship in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines and that set the agenda for philosophical thought on the continent and elsewhere from the 1960s to the present. Focusing on the years 1960-1984, the volume examines the major figures associated with poststructuralism and the second generation of critical theo…Read more
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2The New French Philosophy by Ian James (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 35 (3): 484--485. 2013.
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2Nietzsche for Democracy?In Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), 2000, De Gruyter. pp. 220-233. 2000.
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211. Nietzsche's Contest: Nietzsche and the Culture WarsIn Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 184-202. 2000.
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1Introduction: Why Nietzsche Still?In Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics, University of California Press. pp. 1-12. 2000.
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1Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (2): 86-89. 2008.
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1Nietzsche and the Question of InterpretationRoutledge. 1990.First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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1Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong, eds., Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 9 (11): 437-439. 1989.
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1History of Continental Philosophy, Volume 6: Poststructuralism and Critical Theory: The Return of Master Thinkers (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 2010.
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