Original scientific paper

Bloom… Nietzsche… Foucault… Rorty. Philosophical Assumptions of Antithetical Criticism

Predrag Brebanović ; University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology, Belgrade, Serbia

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”.

Keywords

revisionsm; influence; resentment; canon; genealogy; subject; self-creation; contingency

Hrčak ID:

84052

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/84052

Publication date:

24.4.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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