The shortest shadow: Nietzsche's philosophy of the two

What is it that makes Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupancic counters currently fashionable appropriation of as a philosopher who was ahead of his but whose time has finally come -- rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can share. Zupancic argues that definitive Nietzschean quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of mainstream of his or any time. To restore to a context in which thought lives on its own credit, Zupancic examines two aspects of his philosophy. First, in Nietzsche as Metapsychologist, she revisits principal Nietzschean themes -- his declaration of death of (which had a twofold meaning, God is dead and Christianity survived death of God), ascetic ideal, and nihilism -- as ideas that are very much present in our hedonist postmodern condition. Then, in second part of book, she considers Nietzsche's figure of Noon and its consequences for his notion of truth. describes Noon not as moment when all shadows disappear but as moment of the shortest shadow -- not unity of all things embraced by sun, but moment of splitting, when one turns into two. Zupancic argues that this notion of Two as minimal and irreducible difference within same animates all of Nietzsche's work, generating its permanent and inherent tension.