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Infectious Nietzsche (Studies in Continental Thought) - Softcover

Krell, David Farrell

 
9780253210395: Infectious Nietzsche (Studies in Continental Thought)

Synopsis

How reading Nietzsche, the genealogist, colors our understanding of philosophers from the Greeks and the Romantics through contemporary postmodern thought.

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About the Author

DAVID FARRELL KRELL is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy, Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge, and Postponements: Women, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche.

From the Back Cover

David Farrell Krell examines issues concerning health, illness, and creativity in the life na thought of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Drawing on a wide variety of philosophical reflections on health-from Plato through the German Idealists-Krell engages a broad range of contemporary Nietzsche interpretation-from Heidegger and Derrida to Kofman and Irigaray. Anyone interested in a philosophical reflection on questions of genius and illness, and all readers of Nietzsche, will find Krell's book compelling.

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