A01=Christoph Cox
aesthetic understanding
Author_Christoph Cox
Category=QDTJ
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contemporary thought
dogmatism
epistemological
epistemology
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existentialism
metaphysics
modern science
naturalism philosophy
naturalistic critique
nietzsche
ontological
ontological position
ontology
perspectivism
postmetaphysical epistemology
reciprocal commitment
relativism
scientific reductionism
theology
vicious relativism
western philosophy
Product details
- ISBN 9780520215535
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship. As perhaps the most significant predecessor of more recent attempts to formulate a postmetaphysical epistemology and ontology, Nietzsche is considered by many critics to share this problem with his successors: How can an antifoundationalist philosophy avoid vicious relativism and legitimate its claim to provide a platform for the critique of arguments, practices, and institutions? Christoph Cox argues that Nietzsche successfully navigates between relativism and dogmatism, accepting the naturalistic critique of metaphysics and theology provided by modern science, yet maintaining that a thoroughgoing naturalism must move beyond scientific reductionism. It must accept a central feature of aesthetic understanding: acknowledgment of the primacy and irreducibility of interpretation. This view of Nietzsche's doctrines of perspectivism, becoming, and will to power as products of an overall naturalism balanced by a reciprocal commitment to interpretationism will spur new discussions of epistemology and ontology in contemporary thought.
Christoph Cox is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College.
