Book Review
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SURI 10:1 (2022): 122-128
Book Review: Bolaños, Paolo A.,
Thought-pieces: Nietzschean
Reflections on Anti-foundationalism,
Ethics, and Politics
Anton Heinrich L. Rennesland
University of Santo Tomas, Manila
Thought-pieces is Paolo Bolaños’s latest work that has been baptized as the
“Grey Book,” the latest addition to the growing collection of his works
which are fondly called by their covers’ respective colors.
1
This current book
under review provides Nietzschean reflections on anti-foundationalism,
ethics, and politics, comprised of seven essays that were previously
published as either journal articles or book chapters yet were revised to fit
the book’s subthemes.
2
Despite 133 years after his mental collapse in Turin,
Nietzsche is still grossly misunderstood, evident especially in watered-
down readings that do not confront the thinker as who he is and his ideas
1
This is a running theme especially in the classes of Dr. Bolaños. His work On
Affirmation and Becoming: A Deleuzian Introduction to Nietzsche’s Ethics and Ontology
(Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014) is called the “Blue Book”
while the recent Nietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis, Language, and
Reconciliation: Towards an Ethics of Thinking (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020) is
the “Brown Book.”
2
See Paolo A. Bolaños, Thought-pieces: Nietzschean Reflections on Anti-
foundationalism, Ethics, and Politics (Davao: Aletheia Publishing, 2021), ii.