May 6, 2005
The figure of Nietzsche can be seen as a bridge across the analytic continental divide. The analytic schools offer a tradition of interpreting Nietzsche, beginning with Walter Kaufmann, Arthur Danto and Bernd Magnus and continuing with Maudemarie Clark, Solomon/Schacht, and most recently, by Robert Gooding-Williams? And Nietzsche is an important figure for continental philosophy and it has its established analytic traditions of interpreting Nietzsche with Heidegger, Adorno, Klossowski, Levinas, Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze.
If the figure of Nietzsche is a bridge across the analytic continental divide, then Nietzsche's texts are critical of academic philosophy and resist the ordering in the received historical canon of philosophy. His writings have continued to be remarkably resistant to traditional comprehension of academic philosophy.
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