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marc129's review against another edition
1.0
Very short booklet, with the idiosyncratic view of the author on Nietzsche. Deleuze has quite a reputation, but this didn't add much I'm afraid.
wghams's review against another edition
3.75
While I found the style of writing a bit dry, the book does contain many great insights. Existence is innocent, reactive values and the dice roll are all incredible ways of phrasing Nietzsche's thoughts, bringing new clarity to the tendencies of life-denial and slave morality.
ophelia_impersonator's review against another edition
5.0
nu stiu cat as fi reusit sa rezonez cu Nietzsche daca nu erau cartile lui Deleuze, ii multumesc pentru grindsetul pe care mi l-a oferit
casparb's review against another edition
4.0
Read in conjunction with Jon Roffe's impressive guide. This was one of the most challenging books I've read in a long while. It complicated some things, made my head hurt an awful lot in places - trying to hammer Liebnizian differential calculus into my brain wasn't fun (but also not an absolute necessity so no fear there).
Nietzsche and Philosophy is a very impressive text, that I think certainly demands a revisit at some point. There's something so delightful about the feeling of things clicking into place. Still, one for the very intrepid.
Nietzsche and Philosophy is a very impressive text, that I think certainly demands a revisit at some point. There's something so delightful about the feeling of things clicking into place. Still, one for the very intrepid.
jadenquest's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
4.75
marxistsupernanny's review
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Nietzsche and Philosophy was a challenging read, but ultimately provided a good background on Deleuze’s philosophy. Here, you see a peak in Deleuze’s ethics — which is also a Spinozian ethics of forces. Deleuze’s ethics is anti-moralistic, and is instead an ethics mapped as a typology and topology. Which is to say, his ethics (as well as Nietzsche’s) isn’t ordained by God, but is what man comes to post-God. Deleuze’s readings of the Eternal Return, Ressientiment, and Bad consciousness are primary here.
williamzzengg's review against another edition
5.0
hopefully will reread multiple times in my life. Still don't fully understand, but what little bits I did understand were very helpful in providing a foundation for interpreting Nietzsche. Foundation?!
"Reason sometimes dissuades and sometimes forbids us to cross certain limits: because it is useless (knowledge is there to predict) because it would be evil (life is there to be virtuous), because it is impossible (there is nothing to think behind the truth). -- But does not critique, understood as a critique of knowledge itself, express new forces capable of giving thought another sense?"
"Zarathustra says: 'the unfamiliar things of the future and whatever frightened stray birds, are truly more familiar and more genial than your "reality". For thus you speak: "We are complete realists and without belief or superstition": thus you thump your chests -- alas, even without having chests! But how should you be able to believe, you motley-spotted men! -- you who are paintings of all that has ever been believed!...'"
"Reason sometimes dissuades and sometimes forbids us to cross certain limits: because it is useless (knowledge is there to predict) because it would be evil (life is there to be virtuous), because it is impossible (there is nothing to think behind the truth). -- But does not critique, understood as a critique of knowledge itself, express new forces capable of giving thought another sense?"
"Zarathustra says: 'the unfamiliar things of the future and whatever frightened stray birds, are truly more familiar and more genial than your "reality". For thus you speak: "We are complete realists and without belief or superstition": thus you thump your chests -- alas, even without having chests! But how should you be able to believe, you motley-spotted men! -- you who are paintings of all that has ever been believed!...'"