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

by Frank Chouraqui

Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Chouraqui argues, are linked by how they conceive the question of truth. Although both thinkers criticize the traditional co ncept 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823254119
• ISBN13: 9780823254118
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"