Endorsements of Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy

Lemm's book is not only an original and convincing interpretation of Nietzsche's thought, but it also opens up a new perspective on the meaning and future of an affirmative biopolitics. Contrary to what an old humanist tradition has asserted, it is precisely the biological continuity between human being and animal that withholds the secret of a resistance to disciplinary mechanisms as well as the potential for a radically new development of individual creativity.

- Roberto Esposito, Italian Institute of Human Sciences

Lemm's study of the animals populating Nietzsche's work is careful, scholarly and
splendidly imaginative. It will alter received understandings of Nietzsche's humanism and anti-humanism, and contribute as well to contemporary theoretical inquiries into human/animal boundary breaches. The prose features beautiful combinations of gravitas and whimsy, philosophical abstraction and figurative concreteness—combinations that befit the subject and provide rare pleasure for the reader.

- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley

Lemm’s book is a wide ranging and richly insightful work that quite persuasively ties Nietzsche's treatment of the theme of animality to his political thought and to his engagement with the topics of decadence, the body, and the Übermensch. It is an outstanding addition to contemporary Nietzsche scholarship and a major contribution to the growing literature on Nietzsche’s significance as a philosopher of culture.

- Robert Gooding-Williams, The University of Chicago