As the forerunner of deconstruction, Nietzsche has much in common with deconstuctonists such as Derrida in their anti-rationalism and their view of language. Nietzsche believed that truth, as a sign of the will to power, was relative and that morality, as an excuse for the individual＇s selfish behavior, was nihilistic. Thus the conventional view of language as the embodiment of reason was questioned. Nietzsche held that such a language repressed the individual＇s will and creativity. He believed that language was essentially metaphorical and t...
