Ambiguity and the Absolute: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth - Couverture rigide

Chouraqui, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0823254119 ISBN 13 : 9780823254118

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Chouraqui argues, are linked by how they conceive the question of truth. Although both thinkers criticize the traditional concept of truth as objectivity, they both find that rejecting it does not solve the problem. What is it in our natural existence that gave rise to the notion of truth?
The answer to that question is threefold. First, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty both propose a genealogy of "truth" in which to exist means to make implicit truth claims. Second, both seek to recover the preobjective ground from which truth as an erroneous concept arose. Finally, this attempt at recovery leads both thinkers to ontological considerations regarding how we must conceive of a being whose structure allows for the existence of the belief in truth. In conclusion, Chouraqui suggests that both thinkers' investigations of the question of truth lead them to conceive of being as the process of self-falsification by which indeterminate being presents itself as determinate.

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À propos de l'auteur

Frank Chouraqui is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Koç University, Istanbul. He is the author of several articles and chapters on Nietzsche and on phenomenological ontology He is the translator and editor of Louis Auguste Blanqui's Eternity by the Stars.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823254119
• ISBN 13: 9780823254118
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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