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In a recent post discussing the three generations of left-oriented reception of Nietzsche I affirmed that contemporary Zizekians, unbeknownst to themselves, may well constitute the fourth generation of left Nietzscheans and that Zizek, for all his conscious rejection of Nietzsche’s … Lire la suite →

Translation/Commentary of the first paragraph of a text on Nietzsche by Georges Bataille

In my previous post I argued that Matthew Sharpe’s review not only compresses but also demarxises and further de-historicises Aymeric Monville’s very short book, which is only ninety pages long, including the new introduction written for the recent re-edition of … Lire la suite →

Matthew Sharpe’s lengthy review of Aymeric Monville’s book « Misère du nietzschéisme de gauche: de George Bataille à Michel Onfray » (soon to be published in English) is an intellectually precarious essay edified on top of an already intellectually dubious book. The … Lire la suite →