Postmoderner Links-Nietzscheanismus

Updated and expanded new edition That postmodernism emerged from "left-wing" interpretations of Nietzsche is often claimed but rarely examined. In contrast, the aim here is to examine Deleuze's and Foucault's reading of Nietzsche as a postmodern construction of its own, which could become attractive to a generation of left-wing intellectuals in times of political disenchantment. What becomes visible is a line of reception in which both the masterly and the neo-religious dimensions of Nietzsche's philosophy are faded out or retold in an empathetic and defused way. Rehmann's critique is not directed against the concern to be inspired by the acumen of Nietzsche's institutions, but against the conformism of using it as symbolic capital without exposing its hierarchical obsession. Finally, in the late Foucault of "Concern for Itself", one can observe how the neo-Nietzschean approach combines with the ideologies of neoliberalism.