>Charles: Wasn't Nietzsche a Nihilist ? ( I got deja vu of asking this
>question on this list and this exchange before).
Nietzsche was first and foremost an anti darwinian. Lukacs seems to have been incorrect in his Destruction of Reason to have read him as anti socialist and -Marxist. The centrality of Darwin to Nietzsche's thought has been ignored or downplayed for decades now (my favorite political reading of Nietzsche is Alfred Weber's in Farewell to European History); there is for example a very brief chapter on N and D in Irving Zeitlin's short book on N. In his contribution to Michael Ruse, ed. Biology and the Foundation of Ethics (Cambridge, 1999) Jean Gayon has put anti Darwinism at the center of his interpretation of N. Nietzsche seems to be a case study of how not to do science critique after developing an inferiority complex over specialisation in philology or some other humanistic discipline. There are real lessons here for the anti Sokal crowd.
yours, rakesh