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. Gilles Deleuze contrasted “active” and “reactive” forces in a book on this philosopher, 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” method adopted from this philosopher. For 10 points, postwar French thinkers reinterpreted what philosopher’s influential concepts, such as the “eternal return?” ■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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