The Surface and the Abyss (eBook)

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Peter Bornedal, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Table of Contents 6
Introduction 18
CHAPTER 1. The Narcissism of Human Knowledge. An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s Über Wahrheit und Lüge in the Context of 19th Century Kantianism. 46
CHAPTER 2. A Silent World. Nietzsche’s Radical Realism: World, Sensation, Language 114
CHAPTER 3. Splitting the Subject. Nietzsche’s Radical Rethinking of the Cartesian and Kantian ‘I Think’ 170
[CHAPTER 3.] Part I: Thinking the ‘I’ in Descartes, Kant, and Benveniste 181
[CHAPTER 3.] Part II: Nietzsche’s Theories of the Split Subject 210
CHAPTER 4. Theory of Knowledge as ‘Neuro-Epistemology’. Toward a Biological-Linguistic Subject in Nietzsche and Contemporaries 248
[CHAPTER 4.] Part I: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries on Sensation, Cognition, and Language 258
[CHAPTER 4.] Part II: Toward a ‘Biological-Linguistic’ Nietzschean subject 299
[CHAPTER 4.] Part III: Reconciling Positions and Drawing up Implications 342
CHAPTER 5. The Meaning of Master, Slave, and Priest: From Mental Configurations to Social Typologies 375
[CHAPTER 5.] Part I: The Incredible Profundity of the Truly Superficia 378
[CHAPTER 5.] Part II: On the Ideological Formatting of the Servile Configuration 406
CHAPTER 6. Eternal Recurrence in Inner-Mental Life. Eternal-Recurrence as Describing the Conditions for Knowledge and Pleasure 452
Appendixes 524
APPENDIX 1. Nietzsche and Ernst Mach on the Analysis of Sensations 525
APPENDIX 2. A Theory of “Happiness”? 534
APPENDIX 3. The Fragmented Nietzschean Subject and Literary Criticism 557
LIST OF LITERATURE AND INDEX 584