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. Frontmatter ......Page 2 Table of Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 18 CHAPTER 1. The Narcissism of Human Knowledge. An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Über Wahrheit und Lüge in the Context of 19th Century Kantianism. ......Page 46 CHAPTER 2. A Silent World. Nietzsche’s Radical Realism: World, Sensation, Language ......Page 114 CHAPTER 3. Splitting the Subject. Nietzsche’s Radical Rethinking of the Cartesian and Kantian ‘I Think’ ......Page 170 [CHAPTER 3.] Part I: Thinking the ‘I’ in Descartes, Kant, and Benveniste......Page 181 [CHAPTER 3.] Part II: Nietzsche’s Theories of the Split Subject......Page 210 CHAPTER 4. Theory of Knowledge as ‘Neuro-Epistemology’. Toward a Biological-Linguistic Subject in Nietzsche and Contemporaries ......Page 248 [CHAPTER 4.] Part I: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries on Sensation, Cognition, and Language ......Page 258 [CHAPTER 4.] Part II: Toward a ‘Biological-Linguistic’ Nietzschean subject ......Page 299 [CHAPTER 4.] Part III: Reconciling Positions and Drawing up Implications ......Page 342 CHAPTER 5. The Meaning of Master, Slave, and Priest: From Mental Configurations to Social Typologies ......Page 375 [CHAPTER 5.] Part I: The Incredible Profundity of the Truly Superficia......Page 378 [CHAPTER 5.] Part II: On the Ideological Formatting of the Servile Configuration ......Page 406 CHAPTER 6. Eternal Recurrence in Inner-Mental Life. Eternal-Recurrence as Describing the Conditions for Knowledge and Pleasure ......Page 452 APPENDIX 1. Nietzsche and Ernst Mach on the Analysis of Sensations ......Page 525 APPENDIX 2. A Theory of “Happiness”? ......Page 534 APPENDIX 3. The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism ......Page 557 Backmatter ......Page 584