Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault

by Jan Rehmann

It is often asserted that postmodernism emerged from 'leftist' Nietzsche-interpretations, but it is rarely explored. This book investigates how Deleuze and Foucault read Nietzsche and apply a hermeneutics of innocence to his philosophy that erases the elitist, anti-democratic, and anti-socialist dimensions. This misreading also affects their own theory and impairs the claim to develop a radical critique. The late Foucault's turn to self-care techniques...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004515127
• ISBN13: 9789004515123
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 340 Pages