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Nietzsche's System

By John Richardson

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1996
ISBN
0195098463, 9780195098464
LCC
B3317 .R46 1996
Open Library ID
OL1280032M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4645755 bytes)
Pages
331\331
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-06 17:00:15

Description

This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world. These basic thoughts organize and inform everything he writes; by examining them closely we can find the larger structure and unifying sense of his strikingly diverse views. With rigor and conceptual specificity, Richardson examines the will-to-power ontology and maps the values that emerge from it. He also considers the significance of Nietzsche's famous break with Plato--replacing the concept of "being" with that of "becoming." By its conservative method, this book tries to do better justice to the truly radical force of Nietzsche's ideas--to demonstrate more exactly their novelty and interest.

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