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"""A compelling case for reconsidering Nietzsche's political thought and rehabilitating Nietzsche as a political thinker...Shapiro takes seriously Nietzsche's claim to be a philosopher of the future.""-- ""Comparative and Continental Philosophy"" ""I have been studying Nietzsche for fifty years, and it is rare that I come across an interpretation that opens up something truly new to me. Shapiro's book has done that. His close reading of texts was impressive in showing how frequent and extensive earthen references are in Nietzsche's writings...Shapiro has given a brilliant analysis of how Nietzsche's thought can be brought to bear on urgent planetary questions facing our own time on earth.""-- ""Journal of the History of Philosophy"" ""For some time now, Shapiro (Univ. of Richmond) has been one of the most thoughtful and innovative writers on Nietzsche, and Shapiro's earlier works, including Nietzschean Narratives (1989) and Alcyone (CH, May'92, 29-5059),​ are essential reading for anyone who is drawn to Nietzsche's astonishing ideas or his brilliant sense of style. Shapiro's new volume offers another profound discussion of Nietzsche, this one focused on his thinking about nature, his continuing relevance as an important political thinker, and his account of the radical conflict between different global civilizations. Shapiro is himself an excellent writer, and publication of this book is an important event in contemporary Nietzsche scholarship. Chapters cover a variety of different but related themes, including globalization, the end of history, the great politics, modern ideas, post-theology, nomads, hybrids, and what Nietzsche called ""the century of the multitude."" Shapiro also situates Nietzsche in relation to recent thinkers like Badiou, Agamben, Deleuze, and Foucault. Overall, Nietzsche's Earth does an excellent job of showing how Nietzsche remains contemporary, and how his thought still illuminates the world of the early 21st century, with all of its complexities and struggles. Shapiro makes it clear why Nietzsche must still be read. Highly recommended."" -- ""CHOICE"" (5/1/2017 12:00:00 AM) ""Gary Shapiro's remarkable new book draws attention to and articulates the many ways in which Nietzsche celebrates the actual earthen characteristics of human habitats: the concrete places, locales, climates, and environments that sustain our dwelling on earth. Here, geology and geography are brought to bear and expanded into an enriched, meaning-laden 'geo-philosophy.'... [A] brilliant analysis of how Nietzsche's thought can be brought to bear on urgent planetary questions facing our own time on earth.""-- ""Journal of the History of Philosophy"" ""Shapiro's scholarly book is written with passion and wit...It exhibits an admirable honesty, as when it acknowledges that not every Nietzschean text fits his thesis of a strong earth/world contrast...Readers of Nietzsche, whether friendly or hostile (or both), will benefit from Nietzsche's Earth.""-- ""Review of Metaphysics"""

Shapiro offers us something more interesting than an intellectual biography. What we have here is an incisive, innovative, provocative, and above all enlightening reading of Nietzsche s work in light of some contemporary challenges, including the Anthropocene, the war on terror, the clash of civilizations, the end of nature, and the sixth extinction. These readings, or what Shapiro calls philological investigations, reveal an impressive, extensive, and secure knowledge of the Nietzschean corpus as well as the secondary literature. Because of Shapiro s deep knowledge of Nietzsche s work, he is also able to correct many mistranslations and misunderstandings of his work. The result is a masterful reinterpretation of Nietzsche by a life-long Nietzsche scholar that reads like the manifesto of a scholar who is bestowing on us the gifts of exemplary creative appropriations and generative exegeses proving that Nietzsche can be a resource for an ethical and political engagement with the earth and other peoples. --Eduardo Mendieta, Pennsylvania State University

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Gary Shapiro is the Tucker-Boatwright Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Richmond. He is the author of many books, including Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel and Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying.

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