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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a beautifully written account of Nietzsche's 'final teaching, ' engaging the rich intersection of Nietzsche's thinking with the major twentieth-century interpretations of his thought from Heidegger and Klossowski to Lampert and Strauss. Gillespie brings the resources of political philosophy to situate this final teaching together with nihilism, in its real world-historical context, and the transhumanity of the bermensch, toward the ambitious project of articulating a 'musical politics, ' very literally in sonata form, and including a masterful discussion of Plato. In this way, Gillespie finalizes Nietzsche's teaching of eternal return as a political project."--Babette Babich, Fordham University "Nietzsche's Final Teaching is the work of a seasoned scholar whose thorough mastery of Nietzsche's notoriously difficult writings, especially the notebooks and letters, informs a remarkably consistent view of his philosophy. In admirably clear and accessible prose, Gillespie argues that the idea of the eternal recurrence forms the basis of what he calls Nietzsche's (anti-)metaphysics and sketches the terrifying practical consequences Nietzsche hoped would follow from this idea." --Paul Franco, Bowdoin College "Nietzsche's Final Teaching is the product of the author's decades-long consideration of Nietzsche's work. Gillespie takes seriously the primacy for Nietzsche of his teaching of eternal recurrence, and explores with novelty and precision Nietzsche's attempt to unify philosophy with music. The result is an impressive discussion of Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and other works, and a thought-provoking view of Nietzsche as a whole." --Mark Blitz, Claremont McKenna College
