The Surface and the Abyss: Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind and Knowledge

Peter Bornedal

Published by De Gruyter 2010

The Surface and the Abyss

Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind and Knowledge

Peter Bornedal

Volume 57 in the series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110223422

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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, 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.

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Peter Bornedal, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
CHAPTER 2. A Silent World.
CHAPTER 2. A Silent World. Nietzsche’s Radical Realism: World, Sensation, Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
CHAPTER 3. Splitting the Subject.
[CHAPTER 3. Prefatory text] Splitting the Subject. Nietzsche’s Radical Rethinking of the Cartesian and Kantian ‘I Think’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
[CHAPTER 3.] Part I: Thinking the ‘I’ in Descartes, Kant, and Benveniste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
[CHAPTER 3.] Part II: Nietzsche’s Theories of the Split Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
[CHAPTER 4.] Part I: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries on Sensation, Cognition, and Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
[CHAPTER 4.] Part II: Toward a ‘Biological-Linguistic’ Nietzschean subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282
[CHAPTER 4.] Part III: Reconciling Positions and Drawing up Implications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
[CHAPTER 5.] Part I: The Incredible Profundity of the Truly Superficia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
[CHAPTER 5.] Part II: On the Ideological Formatting of the Servile Configuration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Appendixes
APPENDIX 1. Nietzsche and Ernst Mach on the Analysis of Sensations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	508
APPENDIX 2. A Theory of “Happiness”? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
APPENDIX 3. The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	540
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 608
Keywords: Nietzsche; Friedrich; Cognition; Knowledge; Mind; Consciousness

eBook

Published: June 29, 2010
ISBN: 9783110223422

Hardcover

Published: June 15, 2010
ISBN: 9783110223415

Paperback

Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110481600