num_pages: 328
description: This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system --but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths , both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world. These basic thoughts organize and inform everything he writes; by examining them closely we can find the larger structure and unifying sense of his strikingly diverse views. With rigor and conceptual specificity, Richardson examines the will-to-power ontology and maps the values that emerge from it. He also considers the significance of Nietzsche's famous break with Plato--replacing the concept of "being" with that of "becoming." By its conservative method, this book tries to do better justice to the truly radical force of Nietzsche's ideas--to demonstrate more exactly their novelty and interest.
language: English
title: Nietzsche's System
titlecomplete: Nietzsche's System
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Oxford University Press