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Nietzsche: Anti-Philosophy 1

By (author) Alain Badiou, Translated by Bruno Bosteels, Translated by Susan Spitzer

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For Alain Badiou, Friedrich Nietzsche is the â€œprinceâ€ of anti-philosophy. French leftist thinkers celebrated Nietzsche in the second half of the twentieth century, but when a backlash emerged in the 1990s, Badiou refused to join the attack. Instead, Badiou devoted his 1992â€“1993 seminar to an astonishingly original reading of Nietzscheâ€”to whom he had previously shown indifference or scornâ€”in which he appears almost enamored with the author of The Anti-Christ and Ecce Homo. This book presents Badiouâ€™s seminar on Nietzscheâ€™s late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: anti-philosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy. For Badiou, Nietzsche is the key modern anti-philosopher, his antagonistâ€”and occasional allyâ€”in the battle to redefine the work of philosophy. Badiou takes for granted Nietzscheâ€™s declaration that â€œGod is dead,â€ yet he rejects Nietzscheâ€™s assertion that philosophy too is past its expiration date. Badiou engages a century-long tradition of grappling with Nietzscheâ€™s paradoxes, considering thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze, and Derrida. Examining Nietzscheâ€™s impassioned writings on Wagner, he reflects on the nature of art and aesthetics. Provocative and profound, this seminar shows Badiouâ€™s ongoing project of reasserting the value of philosophy from a new angle.

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