The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism    •
Bernard Reginster   • May 1, 2007   • Series: Volume 10 - 2007
Bernard Reginster, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on
Overcoming Nihilism. Harvard University Press, 2006. 307 pages
with index. $25.20. ISBN 0-674-02199-1  In his recent book, The
Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism, Bernard
Reginster tackles the ambitious, and highly controversial,
project of articulating a systematic interpretation of
Nietzsche's philosophical project that coherently accounts for
all of his distinctive themes as well as provides a framework
for interpreting his more idiomatic views. In light of
Nietzsche's own disdain towards the "will to a system,"
Reginster's approach depends upon his claim that Nietzsche's
statement against systematizers in The Twilight of the Idols was
the rejection of the aspiration to make philosophical knowledge
an all inclusive system based on a small set of foundational,
self-evident propositions and not the rejection