Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading contemporary French philosophers, alongside Foucault, Derrida and Lacan. Nietzsche et la philosophie, first published in 1962, has long been recognised as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche's philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation.
This is not only a major work in Nietzschean studies: it has a far wider cultural significance, standing as it does at the beginning of a wholly new avenue of post-war thought. Professor Deleuze shows how, starting from the 'tragic', Nietzsche began a new way of thinking which no longer belongs to philosophy as such and breaks with the dialectic as a method.
'Deleuze's book offers an extremely rich and systematic reading of Nietzsche. There is a genuine coherence in Deleuze's interpretation.... To read Nietzsche and Philosophy is to experience the earnestness of Nietzsche's challenge to western philosophy.' Ronald Beiner, Times Higher Education Supplement
