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Ambiguity and the Absolute - Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,300
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Ambiguity and the Absolute - Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth (Hardcover): Frank Chouraqui

Ambiguity and the Absolute - Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth (Hardcover)

Frank Chouraqui

Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

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Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Chouraqui argues, are linked by how they conceive the question of truth. Although both thinkers criticize the traditional co ncept of truth as objectivity, they both find that rejecting it does not solve the problem. What is it in our natural existence that gave rise to the notion of truth?
The answer to that question is threefold. First, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty both propose a genealogy of "truth" in which to exist means to make implicit truth claims. Second, both seek to recover the preobjective ground from which truth as an erroneous concept arose. Finally, this attempt at recovery leads both thinkers to ontological considerations regarding how we must conceive of a being whose structure allows for the existence of the belief in truth. In conclusion, Chouraqui suggests that both thinkers' investigations of the question of truth lead them to conceive of being as the process of self-falsification by which indeterminate being presents itself as determinate.
The answer to that question is threefold. First, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty both propose a genealogy of "truth" in which to exist means to make implicit truth claims. Second, both seek to recover the preobjective ground from which truth as an erroneous concept arose. Finally, this attempt at recovery leads both thinkers to ontological considerations, regarding how we must conceive of a being whose structure allows for the existence of the belief in truth. In conclusion, Chouraqui suggests that both thinkers' investigations of the question of truth lead them to conceive of being as the process of self-falsification by which indeterminate being presents itself as determinate.

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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Release date: December 2013
First published: December 2013
Authors: Frank Chouraqui
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth
Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-5411-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
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LSN: 0-8232-5411-9
Barcode: 9780823254118

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