Michel Haar assesses the overcoming of metaphysics urged by Nietzsche. He probes tensions usually acknowledged without further questioning, and he probes discrepancies. Haar points out that Nietzsche' s overcoming must be conceived as a task both critical and reconstructive. Haar presents Nietzsche as an aesthetic stoic. Although opposed to any doctrinal tenet, Nietzsche rekindles a Stoic return to nature in the register of a creative and aesthetic decision.
Necessity is no longer a single rational force permeating all beings .
Rejecting the Deleuzian essay of interpretation that unleashes the simulacra of an untamed imagination, Haar points out that Nietzsche's rejection of Kant is much less extreme than imagined in Deleuze' s eccentric readings. Haar also shows that the rupture with Schopenhauer came very early in Nietzsche' s itinerary although he accepted the idea of a social conditioning of science. It is this monstrosity that a creative forgetfulness is destined to replace by seeking a place for the work of art amidst tragic joy. Michel Haar is the author of Heidegger and the Essence of Man , also published by SUNY Press.