An analysis of literary criticism that explores the origins of modern criticism in Romanticism and discusses work by Wordsworth, Derrida, Foucault and de Man. The book argues that there is a complex interplay between concepts of subjectivity and linguistic choices.

Nietzsche's Case combines the multiple perspectives of Bernd Magnus, a philosopher and Nietzsche scholar, Jean-Pierre Mileur, a critical theorist/Romanticist, and Stanley Stewart, a Renaissance literary scholar.