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Title: Joyful Cruelty: Toward a Philosophy of the Real (Odeon) by Clement Rosset, David F. Bell, Translator ISBN: 0-19-507991-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Important and Valuable
Comment: For those looking to steal Nietzsche back from the PoMo moralizers, this is an excellent collection. Rossett is by far the most Nietzschean of the French philosophers, and is hated by the vast majority of them for pointing out that Foucault, Irigaray, Derrida and the rest really do not know Nietzsche at all. For Rossett, PoMo is a kind of cruelty. It is based on hating reality -- the only true source of scandal. Affirmative philosophies, like those of Nietzsche, Spinoza and Empedocles, are simply not allowable. To like life and reality is not allowable. It is unsporting to be an atheist. It is unsporting to find reality acceptable and to force the complainers to defend their devaluation of the now. The complainers and the irrationalists never have to defend themselves. Why is that? They are following their cruelty, and we rationalists resist ours. A must read.

Rating: 5
Summary: Magnificent and Magisterial
Comment: This book is a jewel - it contains three essays by one of the most intriguing French thinkers I have ever heard of, Clement Rosset. Rosset seems to be a Nietzschean of sorts, but not the kind of "Nietzschean" we see in Gilles Deluze and his PoMo ilk. Instead, Rosset takes Nietzsche to be a philosopher of the real, and of the unconditional affirmation of the real. His second essay in this collection, "Notes on Nietzsche", is priceless and well worth the cost of the book. The other two essays, including "The Principle of Cruelty", are also wonderful. It's a pity more of his work isn't available in English. Buy this book.