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ANTI-NIETZSCHE
By MALCOLM BULL
Published: 21 NOVEMBER 2011
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“A great thought-experiment…an astonishing call to arms (or to disarm)” - T. J. CLARK
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Nietzsche, the philosopher seemingly opposed to everyone, has met with remarkably little opposition himself. He remains what he wanted to be—the limit-philosopher of a modernity that never ends. In this provocative, sometimes disturbing book, Bull argues that merely to reject Nietzsche is not to escape his lure. He seduces by appealing to our desire for victory, our creativity, our humanity. Only by ‘reading like a loser’ and failing to live up to his ideals can we move beyond Nietzsche to a still more radical revaluation of all values—a subhumanism that expands the boundaries of society until we are left with less than nothing in common.
ANTI-NIETZSCHE is a subtle and subversive engagement with Nietzsche and his twentieth-century interpreters—Heidegger, Vattimo, Nancy, and Agamben. Written with economy and clarity, it shows how a politics of failure might change what it means to be human.
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Praise for MALCOLM BULL:
“Malcolm Bull is one of the English language’s foremost thinkers, philosophers and art historians” – LUC BOLTANSKI
Praise for THE MIRROR OF THE GODS:
“Magnificent…gripping…so well told” – SUNDAY TIMES
“A book that transforms our understanding of Renaissance art” – DAILY TELEGRAPH
“A treasure of scholarship that is most unlikely to be superseded.” – TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=203534§ioncode=20
“An extremely learned work… how he manages to cram in so much learning - from all the variant ancient literary sources, to an uncountable number of Renaissance interpretations - is quite astonishing” – GUARDIAN:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/may/20/art
Praise for SEEING THINGS HIDDEN:
“A brilliantly idiosyncratic thinker with solidly progressive allegiances… SEEING THINGS HIDDEN makes a sustained argument in political philosophy and cultural theory, deeply pondered and finely wrought.” –JONATHAN REE, NEW LEFT REVIEW
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MALCOLM BULL is a theorist and art historian who teaches at Oxford. His books include SEEING THINGS HIDDEN, THE MIRROR OF THE GODS, and ANTI-NIETZSCHE. He is on the editorial board of NEW LEFT REVIEW and writes for the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS.
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ISBN: 978 1 85984 574 5 / $26.95/£16.99/$33.50CAN / Hardback / 224 pages
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