Friedrich Nietzsche Criticism: Further Reading

Allen, Christine Garside. "Nietzsche's Ambivalence about Women." In The Sexism of Social and Political Theory: Women and Reproduction from Plato to Nietzsche, edited by Lorenne M.G. Clark and Lynda Lange, pp. 117-133. University of Toronto Press, 1979. (Critiques Nietzsche's misogynistic remarks.)

Allison, David B., ed. The New Nietzsche: Contemporary Styles of Interpretation. MIT Press, 1985, 274 p. (Collection of essays emphasizing poststructuralist, hermeneutic, and theological interpretations of Nietzsche.)

Aschheim, Steven E. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany 1890-1990. University of California Press, 1992, 337 p. (Historical survey of Nietzsche's cultural and political legacy in Germany.)

Asher, Kenneth. "Deconstruction's Use and Abuse of Nietzsche." Telos 62 (Winter 1984-85): 169-78. (Contends that deconstruction's proponents have misappropriated and distorted Nietzsche's ideas about language and value.)

Blondel, Eric. Nietzsche: The Body and Culture. Translated by Sean Hand. Stanford University Press, 1991, 353 p. (Proposes an interpretation of Nietzsche which strives to avoid metaphysical dualism.)

Bloom, Harold, ed. Friedrich Nietzsche: Modern Critical Views. Chelsea House, 1987, 255 p. (Collection of essays examining Nietzsche's ideas about aesthetics, personal identity, and the entangled relations between philosophy and literature.)

Burgard, Peter, ed. Nietzsche and the Feminine. University Press of Virginia, 1994, 349 p. (Collection of essays debating the significance of Nietzsche's opinions about women and their relevance to contemporary feminist scholarship.)

Camus, Albert. "Nietzsche and Nihilism." In The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, pp. 65-80. Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. (Argues that Nietzsche's imperative to affirm existence confines him to a nihilistic perspective.)

Foucault, Michel. "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History." In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice, pp. 139-164. Edited and translated by Donald F. Bouchard. Cornell University Press, 1977. (Discusses Nietzsche's critique in The Genealogy of Morals.)

Gilman, Sander L., ed. "Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries." Oxford University Press, 1987, 276 p. (A compendium of reminiscences by personal acquaintances of Nietzsche.)

Girard, Rene. "Dionysus versus the Crucified." MLN 99, No. 4 (September 1984): 816-35. (Analyzes the sacrificial nature of the deaths of Dionysus and Christ.)

Hayman, Ronald. Nietzsche: A Critical Life. Viking Penguin, 1982, 424 p. (Authoritative critical biography.)

Heidegger, Martin. Nietzsche. 4 vols. Translated by David Farrell Krell, Frank A. Capuzzi, and Joan Stambaugh. Harper & Row, 1979-87. (A highly influential study of the central themes of Nietzsche's philosophy.)

Hinman, Lawrence M. "Nietzsche, Metaphor, and Truth." Philosophy and Phenomenology XLIII, No. 2 (December 1982): 179-99. (Assesses the validity of Nietzsche's claims that language and truth are derived from metaphor.)

Jaspers, Karl. Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of his Philosophical Activity. Regnery-Gateway, Inc., 1979, 496 p. (Exhaustive interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy as a precursor to existentialism.)

Kaufmann, Walter. Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist. Princeton University Press, 1950, 532 p. (Thorough account of Nietzsche's philosophy by the principal translator of his works into English.)

Koelb, Clayton, ed. Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra. State University of New York Press, 1990, 350 p. (Collection of essays debating whether Nietzsche's philosophy represents an incipient form of postmodernist discourse.)

Lampert, Laurence. Nietzsche's Teaching: An Interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Yale University Press, 1986, 378 p. (Thorough analysis of Thus Spoke Zarathustra citing the eternal return as the central theme.)

Marks, John. "Tracking Nietzsche." The Georgia Review XLVII, No. 2 (Summer 1993): 341-57. (A colloquial account of the author's visit to Rocken, Germany, mingled with reflections on Nietzsche's legacy.)

Mencken, H. L. Friedrich Nietzsche. Transaction Publishers, 1993, 304 p. (Popular exposition of Nietzsche's philosophy by the famous American journalist and social critic.)

Norris, Christopher. "Nietzsche, Philosophy and Deconstruction." In Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, pp. 56-73. Routledge, 1988. (Explains how Nietzsche's philosophy represents a prototypical method of deconstruction.)

Patton, Paul, ed. Nietzsche, Feminism and Political Theory. Routledge, 1993, 247 p. (Collection of essays on Nietzsche's relevance to feminist and political theory.)

Pletsch, Carl. Young Nietzsche: Becoming a Genius. The Free Press, 1991, 261 p. (Biography of Nietzsche's formative years which views genius as a self-conscious, creative strategy for defining one's artistic or philosophical identity.)

Silk, M. S., and Stern, J. P. Nietzsche on Tragedy. Cambridge University Press, 1981, 441 p. (Comprehensive study of The Birth of Tragedy in the context of classical philology and Nietzsche's early interests.)

Thiele, Leslie Paul. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism. Princeton University Press, 1990, 233 p. (Cites themes such as the eternal return and the overman in support of heroic individuation.)

Von der Luft, Eric. "Sources of Nietzsche's 'God Is Dead!' and Its Meaning for Heidegger." Journal of the History of Ideas 45, No. 2 (April-June 1984): 263-76. (Examines the concept of the death of God in its traditional and philosophical senses.)

Warren, Mark. Nietzsche and Political Thought. MIT Press, 1988, 311 p. (Assesses the significance of Nietzsche's philosophy for postmodern political theory.)

Zuckert, Catherine. "Nietzsche's Rereading of Plato." Political Theory 13, No. 2 (May 1985): 213-38. (Considers the evolution of Nietzsche's opinions on Plato.)

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