Publisher's Synopsis
Combining a Nietzschean framework with close attention to a wide range of carefully selected literary texts, this book presents a case for Nietzsche's centrality in contemporary aesthetic and literary studies. It engages in a debate through and with Nietzsche's re-articulation of the self as a strategic (and impossible) aesthetic creation, and shows how Nietzschean dialectics of the self are at work in all (self-defining) human experience in the (post)modern world.