Nietzsche's Perspectivism

by Hales, Steven D.

• ISBN13: 9780252068669
• ISBN10: 0252068661
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-20
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

In Nietzsche's Perspectivism, Steven Hales and Rex Welshon offer an analytic approach to Nietzsche's important idea that truth is perspectival. Drawing on Nietzsche's entire published corpus, along with manuscripts he never saw to press, they assess the different perspectivisms at work in Nietzsche's views with regard to truth, logic, causality, knowledge, and consciousness, as well as to his conception of the self. They also examine Nietzsche's perspectivist ontology of power and the attendant claims that substances and subjects are illusory while forces and alliances of power constitute the only reality.

Hales and Welshon present Nietzsche's treatment of perspectivism as more complex and more fruitful than the common view of it as a doctrine that truth is not objective. Neither a metaphor nor a methodology, perspectivism emerges as a protean concept akin to a unifying theme; an alternative to the absolutism that recurs in science, philosophy, and religion; and a technique for revealing the unimagined possibilities open to every individual.

Author Biography

Rex Welshon is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	iii
Abbreviations	v
Introduction	1	(14)
Truth	15	(22)
Logic	37	(20)
Ontology	57	(28)
Causality	85	(26)
Epistemology	111	(19)
Consciousness	130	(27)
The Self	157	(26)
Conclusion	183	(18)
Epilogue	201	(4)
Notes	205	(12)
Bibliography	217	(6)
Index	223