Interpreting Excess: Jean-Luc Marion, Saturated Phenomena, and Hermeneutics Book

A dated biography which meanders into causational speculation on the different forces in Nietzsche's life far too often.

However Hollingdale's worst grievance is to conclude the book by claiming that Nietzsche's work needs no apology because genius ultimately justifies itself. A clumsy way to dodge the darker impacts of Nietzsche's thought, something which should be wrestled with more seriously. For Hollingdale, Nietzsche's philosophy is almost a historical artifact which we can most enjoy as the expression of a great mind of the past. If anyone feels like Nietzsche can be consigned to the dustbin of history after the fall of Nazism, they miss the whole point (both the dangers and the richness) of the philosophical struggle and the eternal return.