Nietzsche and Metaphysics [Paperback]

Poellner here offers a comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's later ideas on epistemology and metaphysics, drawing extensively not only on his published works but also his voluminous notebooks, largely unpublished in English. He examines Nietzsche's various distinct lines of thought on the traditionally central areas of philosophy and shows in what specific sense Nietzsche, as he himself claimed, might be said to have moved beyond these questions. He pays considerable attention throughout both to the historical context of Nietzsche's writings and to subsequent developments in philosophy--English-language as well as Continental.

1. Introduction; 2. Scepticism; 3. Beyond Scepticism: 'Forthere is no truth '; 4. Truth, Survival, and Power; 5. The nature of 'Inner Experience'; 6. The Will to Power: Nietzsche and Metaphysics; Bibliography; Index.

Poellner brings philosophical learning of an impressive scope to bear on his reading of Nietzsche, situating his views in relation to those of his intellectual forbears and testing them against those of contemporary analytic philosophers. --The Review of Metaphysics

...those wishing to discover a new yet traditional Nietzsche may easily encounter him inNietzsche and Metaphysics. --German Studies Review