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For several decades, Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The book series is international in orientation and reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process.

The series is led by an international team of editors.

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Peter Bornedal provides an interpretation of Nietzsche´s philosophy as a whole in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. The study explains Nietzsche´s notion of truth; his epistemology; his notions of the split and fragmented subject, of master, slave, and priest; furthermore, it offers a new interpretation of the enigmatic "eternal recurrence". It also suggests how important aspects of Nietzsche´s thinking can be read as a sophisticated critique of ideology. From studies in Nietzsche´s work as a whole, not least in his so-called Nachgelassene Fragmente, thebook reconstructs aspects of Nietzsche´s thinking that have largely been under-described in especially the Anglo-Saxon Nietzsche-reception. The study makes the case that Nietzsche in his epistemology, his psychology, and his cognitive theory is responding to several scientific discoveries occuring during the 19th century. Read within the context of contemporary cognitive-psychological-evolutionary debates, Nietzsche´s philosophy is seen as far more scientistic, and far less poetical-metaphysical, than it has in recent reception-history been received.

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Peter Bornedal, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

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