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Derrida Mon Jul 30 10:01:34 2012 No.2854211 [Reply] [Original]

>>Nihilism is invented by Shakespeare, and Dostoevsky knows it. Indeed I would argüe myself, and the right-wing critics in this country would be very angry at me for saying, they imply it very clearly: I think Shakespeare is a nihilist, ultimately, and that he is the greatest nihilistic writer, you know, in the West, and that ultimately our literature is nihilistic because of Shakespeare. As to whether Cervantes is ultimately nihilistic, I am not
prepared to say. I think one could make an argument that perhaps he is, which is what Unamuno I think is secretly saying —he's always on the verge of saying, it's what Nietzsche says. They're not willing to cross over. Why is Nietzsche not in the book? Nietzsche and Emerson and Kierkegaard, those three writers, are far more important to me
personally than Tolstoy is. They are much more important to me than, say, Montaigne or Moliere are

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