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by Brian Leiter (Author) "A familiar, yet still curious, feature of Nietzsche's reception over the last century is that figures with radically divergent views and methodologies all claim the..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (27 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415152852
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415152853
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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'The most important full length study to date of Nietzsche's primary text on the subject. The books sets the standard by which future treatments of this subject matter will be measured and I expect it to be a primary point of reference for discussions of Nietzsche and ethics for some time.' - Peter Poellner, University of Warwick; 'Leiter's book is both a major contribution to Nietzsche studies and a very helpful guide for students to Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality'-Maudemarie Clark, Colgate University, USA

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'This work is simply the best, most sustained, book length exposition of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. As such it will be the reference point for all further scholarly work on the subject.' - Ken Gemes, Birkbeck College, University of London

'Offers one of the most comprehensive and compelling interpretations of Nietzsche's critique of morality to date. With its distinctive emphasis on naturalistic themes, it forms a very significant contribution to the study of Nietzsche, and is poised to become a work of reference in the field.' - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars it has its defects..., 1 Dec 2006
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To be sure, Leiter's book is extremely polemical, and there are some points where he perhaps shouldn't have attempted to "save Nietzsche from himself" and instead should have acknowledged genuine ambiguity or a change of mind, but I cannot but admire his striving to give both a defensible and intelligible reading of Nietzsche. As a commentary, it has the virtues of (1) offering extensive textual evidence for many of its controversial claims and (2) actually trying to make the original viewpoints clearer, instead of more obscure. The latter is a problem that even the more readable commentaries that offer a rather different interpretation of Nietzsche (take, e.g., Nehemas' "Life as Literature") suffer from. Even if one thinks that Leiter got it all wrong, then, this book is well worth the time and effort of reading it, unless, perhaps, one's mind has been irreparably poisoned by an overdose of French literary criticism.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Leiter's Nietzsche is not dynamite, 3 Nov 2006
Leiter's Nietzsche is a vaguely interesting post-Kantian realist whose perspectivism affords epistemological objectivity, and facts which correspond to the way the world truly is.

Like most of the guidebooks published by routledge that I've read, this is a clear introduction to Nietzsche, focusing particularly on 'On the Genealogy of Morals'. Whilst Leiter's book cannot be faulted for its clarity I think it certainly can for its interpretation. I concur with the other reviewer that Leiter just gets Nietzsche completely wrong - however for those determined to file Nietzsche's thought safely away under 'Analytic philosophy' this is good a place to start. Leiter's reading is full of the prejudices that he has become well known for and he belongs to a tradition of philosophers such as Clark who are determined to read Nietzsche as an empirical realist based on what I think is a misreading of of GM, III: 12 and TI: IV.

Whilst this reading has become popular and is certainly worth reading, I don't believe it does justice to Nietzsche or his philosophical project as a whole. An 'unhasty' reading of Nietzsche's works will necessarily reveal a highly sceptical corpus that is often overwhelmed by Nietzsche's attempts to pursuade through tempting rhetoric despite what seems to be clear acknowledgment of anti-realism. For balance, compare Nehamas' 'Life as Literature' (1984, chapters 1 and 2) and as a more general introduction, Allison's 'Reading the new Nietzsche'.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, 16 Aug 2004
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This is a hilariously arrogant book that everybody even vaguely interested in how not to read Nietzsche should read, and then perhaps throw away. "Saving Nietzsche from himself...", Absolutely brilliant! Such incisive and ironical wit from Herr Leiter just leaps from every page of this magnificent mistake of a book. Just make sure that when you're reading it you disguise it with a comic book, otherwise your friends will think that you've lost your mind.
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