This book challenges the popular recent view of Nietzsche as an anti-systematic, anti-traditional thinker, and argues that his work is in fact highly systematic, and therefore congruent with the main traditions of western philosophy.
Reviews
amibitious and important ... offering a comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophical thinking as organized around the notion of "will to power" ... there can be little doubt that Richardson has done, with far greater philosophical skill and scholarly care, what earlier writers ... tried to do in their influential works on Nietzsche ... beautifully crafted systematic portrait of Nietzsche ... This "essence" of things is captured in Nietzsche's doctrine of will to power. Richardson's treatment of this theme is brilliant, the best in the literature ... substantial, scholarly. * Brian Letter, Mind *
The best feature of Richardson's book is the care with which he selects and presents his material. Taking as his themes Neitzsche's views on being, becoming, value and truth, he patiently sifts his interpretations and sets them out with an almost pedantic explicitness. The result is a book that is wholly un-Neitzschean in its straightforwardness and accessibility - and all the more useful for that. * Times Literary Supplement, 8 August 1997 *
Richardson pursues this task by applying a rigorously analytical approach ... erudite and ... illuminating. * Radical Philosophy *



Book Information
ISBN 9780195098464
Author John Richardson
Format Hardback
Page Count 328
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 599g
Dimensions(mm) 163mm * 241mm * 31mm