Ambiguity and the Absolute: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth
Frank Chouraqui
Abstract
This book seeks to elucidate Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty’s treatments of the question of truth by using each of their philosophies to shed light on the other. For both philosophers, the question of truth arises from the fact that even though truth is an illusion, it remains a meaningful concept. What authentic experience is truth an inauthentic expression of? By following the trajectory of this question in both authors’ works, this book demonstrates how this question structures both their philosophies and how its answer constitutes the systematic and intrinsic link between them: the concept of ... More
Keywords: Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Truth, Ontology, Difference, Falsification, Intentionality, History
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823254118 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: May 2014 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823254118.001.0001 |
