This book combines two shorter works by Rosset, Le Principe de Cruaute and La Force Majeure, dating respectively from 1983 and 1988. The two works provide essential and highly topical illustrations of Rosset's central thesis of acceptance of the real. Rosset formulates a philosophical practice that refuses to turn away from the world and thus accepts a confrontation with reality (termed "the real") whose immediacy comprises equal parts of violence and of "joy," or approbation of the real. Beginning with this notion of joy, Rosset offers a reinterpretation of Nietzsche that, rather than treating the philosopher as a nihilist, underscores his quest for experience without illusion.
- ISBN10 0195077415
- ISBN13 9780195077414
- Publish Date 18 March 1993
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 June 1995
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 135
- Language English