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Nietzsche and metaphysics

Author: Peter Poellner
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Series: Oxford philosophical monographs.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book offers a new and comprehensive interpretation and a detailed critical assessment of Nietzsche's later ideas on epistemology and metaphysics, drawing extensively not only on his published works but also his voluminous notebooks, largely unpublished in English. The author examines Nietzsche's various distinct lines of thought on the traditionally central areas of philosophy and shows in what specific sense
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Poellner, Peter.
Nietzsche and metaphysics.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
(OCoLC)604227416
Online version:
Poellner, Peter.
Nietzsche and metaphysics.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995
(OCoLC)608607842
Named Person: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Friedrich Nietzsche; Friedrich Nietzsche; Friedrich Nietzsche
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Poellner
ISBN: 0198235178 9780198235170
OCLC Number: 32236481
Description: xi, 320 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Title: Oxford philosophical monographs.
Responsibility: Peter Poellner.
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Abstract:

This book offers a new and comprehensive interpretation and a detailed critical assessment of Nietzsche's later ideas on epistemology and metaphysics, drawing extensively not only on his published works but also his voluminous notebooks, largely unpublished in English. The author examines Nietzsche's various distinct lines of thought on the traditionally central areas of philosophy and shows in what specific sense Nietzsche, as he himself claimed, might be said to have moved beyond these questions. Throughout the book, considerable attention is paid both to the historical context of his writings and to subsequent developments in philosophy--English-language as well as Continental European.

Among the themes discussed are Nietzsche's relation to scepticism and to evolutionary epistemology; his analysis of 'objective reality' and the associated 'perspectivism'; his criticism of the metaphysician's 'will to truth' and the related analysis of the intellectual paradigm he called the 'ascetic ideal'; his notion of unconscious mental states; and the concept of the will to power and its relation to metaphysics. Dr Poellner, while recognizing the originality of Nietzsche's influential new philosophical paradigm, shows that his thought has closer affinities to the philosophical tradition than is often supposed.--From publisher description.

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