Books in the Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy series

An introduction examining the controversies surrounding Nietzsche's thought and its legacy for politics, making a case for a fresh examination of the topic. An international team of leading scholars provide vital new perspectives on both core and novel topics including justice, democratic and the Enlightenment.

The Time of Revolution presents Heidegger as fundamentally rethinking the temporal character of revolutionary action and radical transformation.

The theme of the philosopher as therapist dominates Nietzsche''s entire opus, from his earliest writings to the Zarathustra period and beyond. Nietzsche wishes to hasten the coming and future sanctification of a new type of synthetic human being, and his entire teaching is shaped by his own struggles against illness.Yet few Nietzsche scholars have paid this crucial therapeutic element of his thought sufficient attention.This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field is composed around the Nietzschean insight, which has its roots in the Hippocratic tradition of ancient medicine, that beliefs, behaviours, ideals and patterns of striving are not things for which individuals or even cultures are responsible. Rather, they are symptoms of what an individual or culture is, which symptoms require diagnostic interpretation and evaluation. The book identifies three principal approaches in Nietzsche''s philosophy: diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic. Each essay takes up this essential insight into Nietzsche''s therapeutic philosophy from a different perspective and collectively they reveal an array of insightful approaches to self-induced enhancement, for both individuals and cultures.

Examines the birth of a fresh philosophical position resulting from Heidegger's notorious confrontation with Nietzsche. This title charts Heidegger's course of the 1930s that culminates in his notorious confrontation with Nietzsche.

What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin? How has the encounter between deconstruction and the performative affected each of these terms? In addressing these questions, this book brings together scholars whose works have been provoked in different ways by the encounter of deconstruction and the performative.Following Derrida''s appeal to any rigorous deconstruction to reckon with Austin''s theorems and his ever growing commitment to rethink and rewrite the performative and its multiple articulations, it is now urgent that we reflect upon the effects of a theoretical event that has profoundly marked the contemporary scene. The contributors to this book suggest various ways of re-reading the heritage and future of both deconstruction and the performative after their encounter, bringing into focus both the constitutive aporia of the performative and the role it plays within the deconstruction of the metaphysical tradition.