<p>‘<em>Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations</em> by Matthew Fogarty stands as a testament to meticulous research, deep intellectual engagement, and a profound understanding of the intricate interplay between literature and philosophy... <em>Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations</em> emerges as an indispensable addition to the literary and philosophical canon… Fogarty’s book not only enriches the field of literary criticism but also stands as a significant contribution to intellectual history, illuminating the often-hidden interplay between literature and philosophy in the modernist era.’ <br />Hamid Farahmandian, <em>James Joyce Quarterley</em></p>
<p>‘This is a book of exemplary scholarship that reminds readers that literature is a combination of the factual and the interpretive, that it is first and foremost an intellectual pursuit, that it exists within an historical continuum, and that a multi-perspectival approach is an important tool in reshaping the order of understanding. It is a rewarding study that will surely impact not just on the study of Irish modernism – particularly adding to readings of the transnational dimension of that field, which has been growing in recent years – but Nietzsche studies too, especially in relation to literature.’ Eoghan Smith, <em>Estudios Irlandeses</em></p>
‘Nietzsche, the Protean philosopher par excellence, must be reinvented by each generation, and yet, in the first decades of the twentieth century, his revolutionary ideas were instrumental in bringing about Irish modernism, here represented by Yeats, Joyce and Beckett. Thanks to Matthew Fogarty’s astute, original, and compelling analyses, we discover an Übermensch speaking with an undeniable Irish accent.’ Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania and American Academy of Arts and Sciences