Nietzsche's French Legacy: A Genealogy of Poststructuralism

Rating:
Summary: Incomplete
Review: There are some things worth learning in this book. However, the characters reviewed are all postmodernists. Schrift is utterly tolerant of the lunacy most of them write. In fact, Schrift is one of the postmodernizers of Nietzsche. He wants Nietzsche to worship at the feet of Derrida along with himself. Schrift does not review, for example, Alain Finkielkraut, who is more popular in France than any of the PoMo big shots, and who does not share their opinion of Nietzsche. He ignores Julien Benda as well. And he never mentions Clement Rossett -- who had the temerity to point out that the entire movement claims to be Nietzschean, when nothing could be further from the truth. The book is selective, and suspect becasue of that.

Rating:
Summary: Incomplete
Review: There are some things worth learning in this book. However, the characters reviewed are all postmodernists. Schrift is utterly tolerant of the lunacy most of them write. In fact, Schrift is one of the postmodernizers of Nietzsche. He wants Nietzsche to worship at the feet of Derrida along with himself. Schrift does not review, for example, Alain Finkielkraut, who is more popular in France than any of the PoMo big shots, and who does not share their opinion of Nietzsche. He ignores Julien Benda as well. And he never mentions Clement Rossett -- who had the temerity to point out that the entire movement claims to be Nietzschean, when nothing could be further from the truth. The book is selective, and suspect becasue of that.