SOURCE: Allison, David B. “Destruction/Deconstruction in the Text of Nietzsche.” boundary 2 8, no. 1 (fall 1979): 197-222.

In the following essay, Allison examines elements of deconstruction theory in several texts by Nietzsche, also commenting on Derrida's interpretation of those texts.

The paper I'd like to present—“Destruction/Deconstruction in the Text of Nietzsche”—is composed of two parts, two quite different parts. The first and shorter part deals with the issue of a deconstructive style within the text of Nietzsche, and the second is concerned with such an operation as performed upon Nietzsche's text—i.e., by someone else and from without. The second part, then, concerns a stylistic fold or doubling-up of interpretation: the example or model I have chosen for this is a text with which most of you are no doubt familiar, Derrida's recent work on Nietzsche, entitled Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles.¹ For the earlier account of an...