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Book SynopsisNietzsche'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 fr
Trade ReviewThis careful, informed and clear critique of the trendy deconstruction of Nietzsche's view of truth provides a serious defense of what Peter Bornedal describes as a broadly naturalist paradigm. Anyone with an interest in Nietzsche will profit by reading this book. -- Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Nietzsche’s Early Theory of Truth and Knowledge A: Part I of Truth and Lies B: Part II of Truth and Lies C: Human Knowledge from Truth and Lies to Human, all too Human Part II: Nietzsche’s Positivist-Pragmatic Paradigm A: Nietzsche’s Later Theories of Truth and Knowledge B: Nietzsche and Critical Positivism C. Final Assessment Appendix “On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense” Endnotes List of Literature About the Author
