The Surface and the Abyss: Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind and KnowledgePeter 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, it offers a new interpretation of the enigmatic "eternal recurrence". It also suggests how important aspects of Nietzsche's thinking can be read as a sophisticated critique of ideology. From studies in Nietzsche's work as a whole, not least in his so-called Nachgelassene Fragmente, the book reconstructs aspects of Nietzsche's thinking that have largely been under-described in especially the Anglo-Saxon Nietzsche-reception. The study makes the case that Nietzsche in his epistemology, his psychology, and his cognitive theory is responding to several scientific discoveries occuring during the 19th century. Read within the context of contemporary cognitive-psychological-evolutionary debates, Nietzsche's philosophy is seen as far more scientistic, and far less poetical-metaphysical, than it has in recent reception-history been received. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER 1 The Narcissism of Human Knowledge An Interpretation of Nietzsches Über Wahrheit und Lüge in the Context of 19th Century Kantianis... | 29 |
World Sensation Language | 97 |
CHAPTER 3 Splitting the Subject Nietzsches Radical Rethinking of the Cartesian and Kantian I Think | 153 |
Thinking the I in Descartes Kant and Benveniste | 164 |
Nietzsches Theories of the Split Subject | 193 |
CHAPTER 4 Theory of Knowledge as NeuroEpistemology Toward a BiologicalLinguistic Subject in Nietzsche and Contemporaries | 231 |
Nietzsches Contemporaries on Sensation Cognition and Language | 241 |
From Mental Configurations to Social Typologies | 358 |
The Incredible Profundity of the Truly Superficia | 361 |
On the Ideological Formatting of the Servile Configuration | 389 |
CHAPTER 6 Eternal Recurrence in InnerMental Life EternalRecurrence as Describing the Conditions for Knowledge and Pleasure | 435 |
APPENDIX 1 Nietzsche and Ernst Mach on the Analysis of Sensations | 508 |
APPENDIX 2 A Theory of Happiness? | 517 |
APPENDIX 3 The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism | 540 |
Backmatter | 567 |
Toward a BiologicalLinguistic Nietzschean subject | 282 |
Reconciling Positions and Drawing up Implications | 325 |
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The Surface and the Abyss: Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind and Knowledge Peter Bornedal Limited preview - 2010 |
The Surface and the Abyss: Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind and Knowledge Peter Bornedal No preview available - 2016 |