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 Spoke Zarathustra" (1883), Nietzsche twice denies that "the eternal return is a circle which makes the same return." "Nietzsche and Philosophy" became a celebrated work. The philosopher Peter Dews writes that "Nietzsche and Philosophy" was central to the post-structuralist texts of the decade that followed its publication, including Deleuze's "Anti-Oedipus" (1972). According to Ronald Bogue, "Nietzsche and Philosophy" marked a significant turning-point in French philosophy, which had previously given little consideration to Nietzsche as a serious or coherent philosopher. Bogue writes that Deleuze was one of the first commentators to discuss the concepts of the will to power and the