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Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jessica N. BerryPublish date:2017-01-01Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190670047ISBN-10:190670045UPC:9780190670047Book Category:History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ancient, History & SurveysBook Topic:Greece, Modern, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC402M707N

The impact of Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics has never before been systematically explored in a book-length work - an inattention that belies the interpretive weight scholars otherwise attribute to his early career as a professor of classical philology and to the fascination with Greek literature and culture that persisted throughout his productive academic life. Jessica N. Berry fills this gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition illuminates Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry. This entirely new reading of Nietzsche's epistemological and ethical views promises to make clear and render coherent his provocative but often opaque remarks on the topics of truth and knowledge and to grant us further insight into his ethics-since the Greek skeptics, like Nietzsche, take up the position they do as a means of promoting well-being and psychological health. In addition, it allows us to recover a portrait of Nietzsche as a philologist and philosophical psychologist that has been too often obscured by commentaries on his thought.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190670047ISBN-10:190670045UPC:9780190670047Book Category:History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ancient, History & SurveysBook Topic:Greece, Modern, Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC402M707N
Jessica N. Berry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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