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Nietzsche's System ReviewFirst things first: this is NOT a good introductory text. It offers a quite controversial interpretation and it focuses on only part of Nietzsche's work (the will to power as a theory of reality). It doesn't offer an overview of the whole of Nietzsche's work, and is quite narrow in its focus. The beginner to Nietzsche is better off with Schacht, Kaufmann, or Hollingdale.That said, for the advanced Nietzsche student, this is an unusually good secondary work on Nietzsche (there are so many unnecessary, dull, or just plain bad books on Nietzsche) What's most interesting about Richardson's book is that it one of the only books I've found that both takes seriously Nietzsche's suggestion of the Will to Power as a theory of reality, not just a psychological concept, while at the same time exploring this idea in depth--rather than in the overly ambiguous and casual way it appears in many of Nietzsche's published writings. This requires digging through the unpublished stuff--there just isn't enough material in the published writing to clarify the concept. Richardson does a good job, and makes a pretty strong case for a Nietzschean ontology of the will to power.
It is, to be sure, a controversial interpretation--especially since it relies heavily on unpublished writings. And his insistence that this should count as a "metaphysics" is misleading--since this is only true in a sense of the word that Nietzsche never actually opposes. But all in all, it's a great book. It's also an important one--even though Nietzsche's comments on the will to power are few and brief, the nature of those comments makes it clear that it is a fundamental concept. And Richardson's book is probably the very first to treat it as seriously, and exhaustively, as it deserves.Nietzsche's System OverviewThis book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world. These basic thoughts organize and inform everything he writes; by examining them closely we can find the larger structure and unifying sense of his strikingly diverse views. With rigor and conceptual specificity, Richardson examines the will-to-power ontology and maps the values that emerge from it. He also considers the significance of Nietzsche's famous break with Plato--replacing the concept of "being" with that of "becoming." By its conservative method, this book tries to do better justice to the truly radical force of Nietzsche's ideas--to demonstrate more exactly their novelty and interest.
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