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A study titled for this philosopher argues that he employs a “method of dramatization,” through which he raises the question “Which one?” instead of “What is?” The concepts of “simulacrum” and “phantasm” are used to analyze this philosopher in a book by Pierre Klossowski. (15[1])Gilles Deleuze (15[1])contrasted “active” and “reactive” forces in a book on this philosopher, (-5[1])whose thinking is offered as the alternative to the “negative…Rousseauist” thinking of (*) “freeplay” in Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign, and Play.” In Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault refined his “archaeological” approach by introducing a “genealogical” (10[1])method adopted from this philosopher. (10[1])For 10 points, postwar (10[1])French thinkers reinterpreted what philosopher’s influential concepts, such as the “eternal return?” (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (The books discussed early on are Deleuze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy and Klossowski’s Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle.)
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