Reading list

Questioning authority. Nietzsche’s gift to Derrida. “Be it the moral-theological tradition, God, or his own status as author, Nietzsche’s refusal to legitimate authority remains constant. As Alan D. Schrift writes, Nietzsche’s deconstruction of authoritarian subjectivity shares much with Jacques Derrida’s post-modern critique of the subject as a privileged centre of discourse.”

Philosophical Knowledge: Its Possibility and Scope. Reviewed by Duncan Pritchard, University of Edinburgh.