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Nietzsche's Will to Power as a Psychological Thesis: Reactions to Bernard Reginster
- The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2012
- pp. 118-129
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While agreeing with Bernard Reginster that Nietzsche's advocacy of the will to power as a psychological thesis is much more fundamental than his extension of it as a cosmological or metaphysical thesis, I criticize him for failing to support this interpretation, and I attempt to supply an analysis that does support it. Then, I take issue with the common tendency to sanitize Nietzsche's theory of the will to power, to make it more palatable—and with Reginster's treatment of this issue. This leads me to an examination of Nietzsche's conception of power—and a critique of Reginster's account of it.