Nietzsche's Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth: A World Fragmented
in Late Nineteenth-Century Epistemology offers a new interpretation
of Nietzsche's discussions of truth and knowledge, covering the
period from his early essay "On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral
Sense" to his late notebooks. It places these discussions in the
context of the neo-Kantian, Naturalist, Positivist, and Pragmatic
schools influential in Nietzsche's late nineteenth-century Europe.
Peter Bornedal argues for a view of Nietzsche's epistemological
thought as an elaboration of this paradigm: proposing ideas that
are anti-metaphysical and anti-theological in their polemic
orientation, and in general promoting new scientific naturalist
ideals in the discussions of knowledge. Bornedal suggests that the
rational pursuit of these new ideals to the unencumbered mind
logically leads to Nihilism in its most profound epistemological
sense. Nietzsche's "critique of metaphysics" is thus seen as having
sprung from sources different from and, at times, in patent
opposition to more recent postmodern and deconstructionist
critiques. This book contextualizes Nietzsche in relation to a
number of philosophical peers and juxtaposes him to contemporary
thinkers in a way that resolves some of the difficulties that have
plagued recent Nietzsche scholarship.
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