Reviews for Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morals

The average rating for Nietzsche's on the Genealogy of Morals based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-11-05 00:00:00 Yahn Kaa This is a really interesting and well written journey using the theme of Desire to travel from Hegel to Foucault, by way of many of France's most important philosophers and thinkers. It was a journey alternating through clear skies and foggy valleys for me, as some sections would hit spot on and others felt too over my head to truly feel I was understanding properly. Worthwhile and recommended overall though! Fascinating to read how different thinkers took the concept of Desire and warped or adjusted it to their own thinking and systems.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-11-21 00:00:00 Pamela Mayer Revised from Judy B's 1984 Yale philosophy dissertation. It's interesting to see the intellectual context that allowed Butler to think Gender Trouble, published the following year, and you can see some of the germs of those ideas popping up briefly here in unexpected places. Also, this convinced me that I absolutely needed to read Hegel. The book is, of course, dense and slow-going, perhaps even more than Butler's later work, but definitely recommended for theory nerds. Especially worth taking a look at are the overview in C.1 of Hegel's view of the subject in Phenomenology of the Spirit and the C.4 discussion of Hegel's anti/influence on theorists who we would more likely label as precursors to queer theory: Foucault, Lacan, Deleuze, and Kristeva.