This book presents a new interpretation of Nietzsche's discussions of truth and knowledge, covering the period from his early essay "On Truth and Lies" to his late notebooks. It views these discussions in the context of the neo-Kantian, Naturalist, Positivist, and Pragmatic schools influential in Nietzsche's late nineteenth-century Europe.

• Cover
• Nietzsche’s NaturalistDeconstruction of Truth
• Nietzsche’s NaturalistDeconstruction of TruthA World Fragmented in LateNineteenth-Century Epistemology
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
  • 1. NATURALISM VERSUS METAPHYSICS
  • 2. NIETZSCHE VERSUS DERRIDA
• Part I: Nietzsche’s Early Theory of Truth and Knowledge
  • A: PART I OF TRUTH AND LIES
    • 1. Preliminary Remarks
    • 2. Human Insignificance and Self-Deceptive Pride
    • 3. Genealogy of the Pragmatic Notion of Truth
    • 4. Nerve-Stimuli, Images, and Sounds
    • 5. Word and/or/versus Concept?
    • 6. Truth as “Dead Metaphors”
    • 7. The Rationalizing Concept
    • 8. Biological Perspectivism
    • 9. Nietzsche’s Empiricist Neo-Kantianism
  • B: PART II OF TRUTH AND LIES
    • 1. Regressions to Romantic Arts-Metaphysics
  • C: HUMAN KNOWLEDGE FROMTRUTH AND LIES TO HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN
    • 1. ‘Vanity’ as the Specifically Human ‘Thing-in-Itself’
    • 2. Will to Truth as Will to Immortality
• Part II: Nietzsche’s Positivist-Pragmatic Paradigm
  • A: NIETZSCHE’S LATER THEORIES OF TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE
    • 1. Nietzsche’s Critiques of the In-Itself as Cause in the Middle Work
    • 2. ‘Chronological Reversal’ of Cause and Effect
    • 3. A Surface without Abyss
    • 4. Three Pillars of Nietzschean Positivism: PhenomenalismPerspectivism Relativism
    • 5. ‘Long Live Science’ as the ‘Best Possible’ Falsification
  • B: NIETZSCHE AND CRITICAL POSITIVISM
    • 1. From Materialism to Agnosticism
    • 2. From Agnosticism to Positivist Nihilism
    • 3. A Nietzsche-Machean Theory of Knowledge
    • 4. The Fictional Concept in Vaihinger and Nietzsche
    • 5. Nietzsche’s Positivism According to Habermas
  • C: FINAL ASSESSMENT
    • 1. What Is ‘True’ and What Is ‘False’ in Nietzsche’s Discussion ofKnowledge?
  • Appendix
    • “On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense”
  • Notes
    • INTRODUCTION
    • PART I: NIETZSCHE’S EARLY THEORYOF TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE
    • PART II: NIETZSCHE’S POSITIVIST-PRAGMATIC PARADIGM
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author