Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche without Masks

Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche without Masks by Schutte, Ofelia. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226741413.

Nietzsche is regarded by some as a great liberator, a thinker far more radical than Marx. For others, he is an ideologue of power, a spokesman for domination, a protofascist. Ofelia Schutte holds that these conflicting assessments result from a failure to distinguish between two paradigms of power found in Nietzsches work: power as recurring energy and power as domination. Schutte uses this fundamental distinction to analyze comprehensively Nietzsches metaphysics, ethics, and politics. She addresses both the positive and the negative in the whole of his thought, seeking to read Nietzsche without masks--without the cultural and intellectual biases of many of his previous interpreters.