Nietzsche on Epistemology and Metaphysics: The World in View Hardcover - 2005

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This book, offering an issue-led investigation of Nietzsche's writings combined with a strong historical component, argues that a specifically Kantian methodology informs Nietzsche's approach to epistemology and metaphysics. Tsarina Doyle contends that both Nietzsche's early and late writings may be understood as responses to Kant's constitutive-regulative distinction at the level of epistemology and to his treatment of force and efficient causality at the level of metaphysics. Nietzsche on Epistemology and Metaphysics argues, controversially, that not only does Nietzsche's will to power thesis derive from his perspectivism but that it can be understood as emerging out of his engagement with both Kant's pre-critical and critical thought. The arguments presented here breathe new life into Nietzsche's metaphysics, demonstrating how it is motivated by the need to combine causal powers with intrinsic natures. The author illustrates how Nietzsche's metaphysics raises issues that are not confined to the history of ideas but continue to be of concern in contemporary metaphysical thought. The result is a book that will be of value to scholars and students with interests in Kant, Nietzsche and the history of ideas. Tsarina Doyle was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Warwick. She is a lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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• Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/02/2009, Page 17