Nietzsche and Metaphor

by Sarah Kofman

Book Overview

This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche.

The issue of style, of why Nietzsche wrote as he did, is fundamental, on any level, to reading his texts. Some Nietzsche critics (in particular, those, such as Jean Granier, indebted to Heidegger's reading), in effect translated Nietzsche's terms back into those of a philosophy of ontology. This book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804721866
• ISBN13: 9780804721868
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"