Buckley's defense of the humane virtues against Ayn Rand's radical individualism, vulgarized
Nietzscheism, and implacable dogmatism.
of Marxist socialism, social Darwinism, and
Nietzscheism. (190) These
His topics include Huneker and Barthes reading Nietzsche; the birth of Irish modernism from the spirit of
Nietzscheism: Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett; affect effects affects: Deleuzian affect versus Lacanian pathos; war, death, and distance in Eliot's poetry; and pathos of the future: nihilism and hospitality in The Childhood of Jesus.
Although I will not argue that Darwish writes the poem of Bachelardism, Heideggerism,
Nietzscheism or Deleuzism, I will argue that, as a "half philosopher," his metaphor allows the reader to construct traces of some of the arguments of those thinkers.