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 thinking as elaborations 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 springing from sources different
from and sometimes in patent opposition to more recent postmodern
and deconstructionist “critiques of metaphysics.” 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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