Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory: Nietzsche and the Sciences I

✍ Scribed by Babette E. Babich (auth.), Babette E. Babich (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 203
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nietzsche, Theories of Knowledge, and Critical Theory, the first volume of a two-volume book collection on Nietzsche and the Sciences, ranges from reviews of Nietzsche and the wide variety of epistemic traditions - not only pre-Socratic, but Cartesian, Leibnizian, Kantian, and post-Kantian -through essays on Nietzsche's critique of knowledge via his critique of grammar and modern culture, and culminates in an extended section on the dynamic of Nietzsche's critical philosophy seen from the perspective of Habermas and critical theory. This volume features a first-time English translation of Habermas's afterword to his own German-language collection of Nietzsche's Epistemological Writings.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Nietzsche’ S Critical Theory: The Culture of Science as Art....Pages 1-26
Nietzsche and Atomism....Pages 27-36
Beyond Reality: Nietzsche’ S Science of Appearances....Pages 37-49
The Epistemological Shift from Descartes to Nietzsche: Intuition and Imagination....Pages 51-66
Between Nietzsche and Leibniz: Perspectivism and Irrationalism....Pages 67-76
Nietzsche Among the Neo-Kantians; Or, the Relation Between Science and Philosophy....Pages 77-86
Nietzsche’s Critique of Modern Reason....Pages 87-102
The Politics of Knowledge: Nietzsche Within Heidegger’s History of Truth....Pages 103-117
Nietzsche and the Vienna Circle....Pages 119-128
Grammar and Truth: On Nietzsche’s Relationship to the Speculative Sentential Grammar of the Metaphysical Tradition....Pages 129-151
The Nietzschean Meta-Critique of Knowledge....Pages 153-163
On Judging in a World of Becoming: A Reflection on the ‘Great Change’ in Nietzsche’s Philosophy....Pages 165-185
Scientific Theory or Practical Doctrine?....Pages 187-197
Nietzsche’s Rhetorical Philosophy as Critique of Impure Reason....Pages 199-207
On Nietzsche’s Theory of Knowledge: A Postscript from 1968....Pages 209-223
Nietzsche and Critical Theory....Pages 225-242
Nietzsche and Enlightenment Science: A Dialectical Reading....Pages 243-251
Nietzsche, Critical Theory and a Theory of Knowledge....Pages 253-264
Truth and Interest: On Habermas’s Postscript to Nietzsche’s Theory of Knowledge....Pages 265-272
Habermasian Passion and the Nietzschean Contagion....Pages 273-279
Habermas, Nietzsche, and Cognitive Perspective....Pages 281-288
Habermas’s Critique of Nietzsche’s Critique of Reason....Pages 289-294
Nietzsche, Habermas, and the Question of Objectivity....Pages 295-306
A Postscript on Habermas, Nietzsche, and Politics....Pages 307-313
Back Matter....Pages 315-348

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science; Epistemology; Political Philosophy; Modern Philosophy