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Deriving inspiration from both continental and American scholarship, Nehamas penetratingly discusses Nietzsche's style
and his views on truth, knowledge, the will to power, morality, and the self. The unifying theme is provided by two central
features of Nietzsche's work: his perspectivism (the view that there are only interpretations) and his ``aestheticism'' (the
tendency to view the world as a literary text and people, including himself, as literary characters). It is the illuminating
treatment of this latter theme that constitutes the book's chief novelty. But there are many other provocative interpretative
claims: for instance, the denial that the notorious doctrine of the eternal recurrence is a cosmological thesis. This is a
brilliant book; no one interested in Nietzsche will want to miss it. Richard Hogan, Philosophy Dept., Southeastern Massachusetts
Univ., N. Dartmouth
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