It is safe to say diat nearly everyaspect ofNietzsche's life andworkhas been chronicled and explicated by scholars, philosophers, and literary theorists ofall camps.

Wagner, Burckhardt, Lou Andreas-Salomé) and in terms ofhis sexuality (a hot topic oflate), he was a complete enigma-even to Freud. Nietzsche's life, as amply demonstrated by several (psycho-)biographies, was no less rich in complexity and detail: he was an accomplished philologist, mediocre composer, not to mention philosopher out ofseason he traveled incessandy, suffered from various physical ailments before his final collapse into madness, had personal contact with key intellectual figures ofthe nineteendi century (e.g. Sean Ireton University of Missouri-Columbia Given the glut ofNietzsche studies diat have filled bookshelves over theyears, one cannot help but ask the question: whyyetanother bookon the mostwritten-about philosopher in the twentieth century? Granted, Nietzsche's multifarious ideas and styles naturally invite a host ofinterpretations, whether from a philosophical, literary, political, or-as has been the case in recent decades-poststructuralist perspective. She had told him die truth.' Such is the legacy ofthese six diaries in bringing them to our attention, Amy Wink has articulated a profitable critical approach, applicable to all sorts ofdiaries. At the end ofVirginiaWoolf's story, after reading his wife's diaries and discovering that her death was really a suicide, die widower reflects, 'He had received his legacy.

As Wink writes of her own reaction to the diaries, 'It is through their writing moments that I have come to write and to understand the person I myselfam continually becoming' (130). By the concluding chapter, 'Something in Particular: Writing, Journals, and the Evidence ofPresence,' we see the ways in which reading diaries can inspire teachers and dieir students in their own writing. Personal writing is a good way to introduce theoretical concepts ofsubjectivity and identity, making She ?f Nothing in Particukr a good starting point for undergraduate study. Theverypatriarchal and paternalistic social order on which they relyfor theiridentities ' (120-121). In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

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