Nietzsche and Metaphysics

by Michel Haar, Michael Gendre (Translator)

Provides an assessment of the overcoming of metaphysics urged by Nietzsche--a critical and reconstructive overcoming. He also probes Nietzsche's project of subverting subjectivity.

Hardcover

First published February 1, 1996

Reviews

[Jt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had to purchase this book for a class on postmodernism that i took in college. The teacher in the class was a young professor who was trying to make a career for himself; it was his first official year teaching as a professor. I applaud his efforts, but must admit that most of the time i spent listening to him back then was me just wondering if what he tried to teach really meant something to him or was just "bull". You must understand i came from a poor, working class background and almost all my friends never attended a class at a university or college (and the Bulls were winning many championships at the time)...but that didn't mean they didn't know anything about how to interpret the world. Some of the things this young professor got into really seemed like a pile of shit to people like my friends, so like them i thought how much was this worth considering; of course, it was his first year, and he was nervous at times and trying to learn his craft. There were situations i'm sure he wished he'd handled better when a student of his truly disagreed with him and placed him in a position to defend his sense of "truth" or at least his understanding of it. I did the prerequisite studying and delineation of studying and i appeared in class enough times to "achieve" a grade designated as an "A" for the record. Years later i picked up this book and saw the lines in it that i had highlighted and even gone over the "important" points a second time with a red-ink pen. I was pleased with my sense of precision for what the "text" was trying to say, even though i remembered none of it when i re-read it. But that's not to say i didn't pick up on its most general, or easily (mis)understood parts that i couldn't recall it in an argument when i was confronted with the topics it tried to address. The second and third time i read it all the way through, i came to a deeper appreciation of how Michael Haar explains his understanding of "Nietzsche" and why this book was assigned to be read in a graduate class in the first place.