Bloom… Nietzsche… Foucault… Rorty: Philosophical Assumptions of Antithetical Criticism Cover Image

Bloom… Nietzsche… Foucault… Rorty: Filozofske pretpostavke antitetičke kritike
Bloom… Nietzsche… Foucault… Rorty: Philosophical Assumptions of Antithetical Criticism

Author(s): Predrag Brebanović
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: revisionsm; influence; resentment; canon; genealogy; subject; self-creation; contingency

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the importance of Nietzsche’s ideas for the genesis and development of Harold Bloom’s theoretical conceptions. The focus is on revisionist foundations of the idea of “anxiety of influence”, as well as on Bloom’s polemic with contemporary theoretical orientations he pejoratively labeled as “School of Resentment”. In addition, certain elements of Bloom’s poetics are confronted with Nietzsche’s legacy present in the work of two philosophers, Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty. Pointing out the similarities and differences – and also the related views of authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Paul de Man – the paper confirms that Nietzsche’s opus, partly due to capacity for different interpretations, has those qualities that Bloom defines as “canonical”.

  • Issue Year: 32/2012
  • Issue No: 01/125
  • Page Range: 153-168
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian