The Surface and the Abyss : : Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind and Knowledge / / Peter Bornedal.

Peter Bornedal provides an interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. The study explains Nietzsche’s notion of truth; his epistemology; his notions of the split and fragmented subject, of master, slave, and priest; furthermore...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung , 57
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Physical Description:1 online resource (608 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. The Narcissism of Human Knowledge.
  • CHAPTER 1. The Narcissism of Human Knowledge. An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Über Wahrheit und Lüge in the Context of 19th Century Kantianism.
  • CHAPTER 2. A Silent World.
  • CHAPTER 2. A Silent World. Nietzsche’s Radical Realism: World, Sensation, Language
  • CHAPTER 3. Splitting the Subject.
  • [CHAPTER 3. Prefatory text] Splitting the Subject. Nietzsche’s Radical Rethinking of the Cartesian and Kantian ‘I Think’
  • [CHAPTER 3.] Part I: Thinking the ‘I’ in Descartes, Kant, and Benveniste
  • [CHAPTER 3.] Part II: Nietzsche’s Theories of the Split Subject
  • CHAPTER 4. Theory of Knowledge as ‘Neuro-Epistemology’.
  • [CHAPTER 4. Prefatory text] Theory of Knowledge as ‘Neuro-Epistemology’. Toward a Biological-Linguistic Subject in Nietzsche and Contemporaries
  • [CHAPTER 4.] Part I: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries on Sensation, Cognition, and Language
  • [CHAPTER 4.] Part II: Toward a ‘Biological-Linguistic’ Nietzschean subject
  • [CHAPTER 4.] Part III: Reconciling Positions and Drawing up Implications
  • CHAPTER 5. The Meaning of Master, Slave, and Priest: From Mental Configurations to Social Typologies
  • [CHAPTER 5. Prefatory text] The Meaning of Master, Slave, and Priest: From Mental Configurations to Social Typologies
  • [CHAPTER 5.] Part I: The Incredible Profundity of the Truly Superficia
  • [CHAPTER 5.] Part II: On the Ideological Formatting of the Servile Configuration
  • CHAPTER 6. Eternal Recurrence in Inner-Mental Life.
  • CHAPTER 6. Eternal Recurrence in Inner-Mental Life. Eternal-Recurrence as Describing the Conditions for Knowledge and Pleasure
  • Appendixes
  • APPENDIX 1. Nietzsche and Ernst Mach on the Analysis of Sensations
  • APPENDIX 2. A Theory of “Happiness”?
  • APPENDIX 3. The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism
  • Backmatter