Early modern philosophy Early modern philosophy Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy) is a period in the history of philosophy at the beginning or overlapping with the period known as modern philosophy. The early modern period in history is roughly 1500–1789, but the label "early modern philosophy" is usually used to refer to a more specific period of time. In the narrowest sense, the term is used to refer principally to the philosophy of the 17th century, posited to have begun with René Descartes; to have included Thomas Hobbes, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza; and to have ended with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and
Nietzsche and Philosophy philosopher Hans Sluga identifies "Nietzsche and Philosophy" as a possible influence on the philosopher Michel Foucault: he suggests that the work helped Foucault to discover Nietzsche as a "genealogical thinker, the philosopher of the will to power." Che-ming Yang describes "Nietzsche and Philosophy" as "one of Deleuze's masterpieces which highlights that the reading of Nietzsche is central to his own philosophical project". Axel Pérez Trujillo discussed the book in "Estudios Nietzsche: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre Friedrich Nietzsche". Nietzsche and Philosophy Nietzsche and Philosophy () is a 1962 book about Friedrich Nietzsche by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze,