Ashley Woodward teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, Australia. He is the author of Nihilism in Postmodernity (The Davies Group, 2010), a co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), and a regular editor for Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy.

Helping students and researchers get to grips with the work of this compelling but often baffling thinker, this introductory guide surveys the impact and continuing influence of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche on modern European thought.

Interpreting Nietzsche explores how some of the most important thinkers of the 20^th century have responded to the legacy of his writings. Each chapter focuses on how Nietzsche's work has been read by such major figures as:

Martin Heidegger
Jacques Derrida
Giles Deleuze
Luce Irigaray
Gianni Vattimo

Encouraging students to take their studies further, each chapter also includes annotated guides to further primary and secondary reading.

Introduction: Whose Nietzsche? Ashley Woodward \ 1. Loewith's Nietzsche J. Harvey Lomax \ 2. Jasper's Nietzsche Leonard Ehrlich and Edith Ehrlich \ 3. Heidegger's Nietzsche Sean Ryan \ 4. Bataille's Nietzsche Yue Zhuo \ 5. Kaufmann's Nietzsche David Rathbone \ 6. Deleuze's Nietzsche Jonathan Roffe \ 7. Klossowski's Nietzsche Ashley Woodward \ 8. Müller-Lauter's Nietzsche Ciano Aydin \ 9. Kofman's Nietzsche Duncan Large \ 10. Strauss' Nietzsche Mathew Sharpe and Daniel Townshend \ 11. Derrida's Nietzsche Carolyn D'Cruz \ 12. Irigaray's Nietzsche Joanne Faulkner \ 13. Vattimo's Nietzsche Robert Valgenti \ 14. Nehamas's Nietzsche Mark Tomlinson \ Notes on Contributors \ Bibliography \ Index.