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 .

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt
Nietzsche's Critical Theory: The Culture of Science as Art.- Nietzsche and Atomism.- Beyond Reality: Nietzsche's Science of Appearances.- The Epistemological Shift from Descartes to Nietzsche: Intuition and Imagination.- Between Nietzsche and Leibniz: Perspectivism and Irrationalism.- Nietzsche Among the Neo-Kantians; Or, the Relation Between Science and Philosophy.- Nietzsche's Critique of Modern Reason.- The Politics of Knowledge: Nietzsche Within Heidegger's History of Truth.- Nietzsche and the Vienna Circle.- Grammar and Truth: On Nietzsche's Relationship to the Speculative Sentential Grammar of the Metaphysical Tradition.- The Nietzschean Meta-Critique of Knowledge.- On Judging in a World of Becoming: A Reflection on the 'Great Change' in Nietzsche's Philosophy.- Scientific Theory or Practical Doctrine?.- Nietzsche's Rhetorical Philosophy as Critique of Impure Reason.- On Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge: A Postscript from 1968.- Nietzsche and Critical Theory.- Nietzsche and Enlightenment Science: A Dialectical Reading.- Nietzsche, Critical Theory, and a Theory of Knowledge.- Truth and Interest: On Habermas's Postscript to Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge.- Habermasian Passion and the Nietzschean Contagion.- Habermas, Nietzsche, and Cognitive Perspective.- Habermas's Critique of Nietzsche's Critique of Reason.- Nietzsche, Habermas, and the Question of Objectivity.- A Postscript on Habermas, Nietzsche, and Politics.- Selected Research Bibliography.- Notes on Contributors.- Table of Contents of Volume Two: Nietzsche, Epistemology, and the Philosophy of Science: Nietzsche and the Sciences II.