ISBN10: 0195368428, ISBN13: 9780195368420, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2010]

ISBN10: 0195368428, ISBN13: 9780195368420, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. The impact of Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics has never before been systematically explored in a book-length work - an inattention that belies the interpretive weight scholars otherwise attribute to his early career as a professor of classical philology and to the fascination with Greek literature and culture that persisted throughout his productive academic life. Jessica N. Berry fills this gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how anunderstanding of the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition illuminates Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry. This entirely new readingof Nietzsche's epistemological and ethical views promises to make clear and render coherent his provocative but often opaque remarks on the topics of truth and knowledge and to grant us further insight into his ethics-since the Greek skeptics, like Nietzsche, take up the position they do as a means of promoting well-being and psychological health. In addition, it allows us to recover a portrait of Nietzsche as a philologist and philosophical psychologist that has been too often obscured bycommentaries on his thought. "The book addresses a number of central issues in Nietzsche's philosophy, including perspectivism and his conception of truth. The idea that his views inthese ...
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New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2010 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 248 p.

New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2010 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 248 p.

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New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2010 Hard cover New. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 248 p.

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ISBN10: 0195368428, ISBN13: 9780195368420, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2010]
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Oxford University Press 2010 hardcover Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

ISBN10: 0195368428, ISBN13: 9780195368420, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.
[State College, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2010]