[T]he analysis of the Heideggerian/Nietzschean dialogue and dialectic is conceptually sure-footed and a useful addition to the literature.

The Review of Politics

“This is a remarkable book. Under the guidance of José Daniel Parra’s careful and penetrating analysis of Heidegger’s confrontation with Nietzsche’s texts, the reader is brought into a rich, complex, and absorbing dialogue between two of the most important thinkers of the modern age, while also revisiting with fresh eyes the history of metaphysical philosophy ranging from Plato, Descartes, Kant, and Hegel. Anyone who wants to understand the genesis, meaning, and continuing relevance of the concept of nihilism in our time simply must consult Parra’s majestic rendering of the intellectual and philosophical architecture of the postmodern mind.”

Lee Ward

“This book has the rare quality of being both comprehensive and path breaking. From its initial treatment of major twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholarly literature on the Nietzsche–Heidegger relation, it follows both Nietzsche and Heidegger’s lead, in that, like Nietzsche and Heidegger, this too is a kind of ‘thought experiment’ at the nexus of hermeneutics and political philosophy, which, in the author’s words, ‘bring[s] to our attention a “spiritual crisis” of epic proportions.’”

Tom Darby, Carleton University