The Surface and the Abyss: Nietzsche as Philosopher of Mind and Knowledge (Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung) (Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung, 57)

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 Table of Contents 5 Preface 13 Introduction 17 CHAPTER 1. The Narcissism of Human Knowledge. An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Über Wahrheit und Lüge in the Context of 19th Century Kantianism. 45 CHAPTER 2. A Silent World. Nietzsche’s Radical Realism: World, Sensation, Language 113 CHAPTER 3. Splitting the Subject. Nietzsche’s Radical Rethinking of the Cartesian and Kantian ‘I Think’ 169 [CHAPTER 3.] Part I: Thinking the ‘I’ in Descartes, Kant, and Benveniste 180 [CHAPTER 3.] Part II: Nietzsche’s Theories of the Split Subject 209 CHAPTER 4. Theory of Knowledge as ‘Neuro-Epistemology’. Toward a Biological-Linguistic Subject in Nietzsche and Contemporaries 247 [CHAPTER 4.] Part I: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries on Sensation, Cognition, and Language 257 [CHAPTER 4.] Part II: Toward a ‘Biological-Linguistic’ Nietzschean subject 298 [CHAPTER 4.] Part III: Reconciling Positions and Drawing up Implications 341 CHAPTER 5. The Meaning of Master, Slave, and Priest: From Mental Configurations to Social Typologies 374 [CHAPTER 5.] Part I: The Incredible Profundity of the Truly Superficia 377 [CHAPTER 5.] Part II: On the Ideological Formatting of the Servile Configuration 405 CHAPTER 6. Eternal Recurrence in Inner-Mental Life. Eternal-Recurrence as Describing the Conditions for Knowledge and Pleasure 451 APPENDIX 1. Nietzsche and Ernst Mach on the Analysis of Sensations 524 APPENDIX 2. A Theory of “Happiness”? 533 APPENDIX 3. The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism 556 Backmatter 583 LIST OF LITERATURE 584 INDEX 609 Name and Title Index 621

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, thebook 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.

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. Main description: Peter Bornedalprovides an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy as a whole in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. Thestudy explains Nietzsche's notion of truth; his epistemology; his notions of the split and fragmented subject, ofmaster, 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 This study provides an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. It explains Nietzsche's notion of truth; It also shows how aspects of Nietzsche's thinking can be read as a sophisticated critique of ideology.