Peter Bornedal Libri

Focusing on Nietzsche's exploration of truth and knowledge, this work spans from his early essay "On Truth and Lies" to his later notebooks. It contextualizes his ideas within the frameworks of neo-Kantianism, Naturalism, Positivism, and Pragmatism, highlighting the intellectual currents that shaped his thought in late nineteenth-century Europe. This fresh interpretation sheds light on the complexities of Nietzsche's philosophy and its relevance to contemporary discussions on epistemology.

Peter Bornedal presents three insightful essays advocating for Deconstruction as a valuable analytical tool focused on foundational knowledge. He aims to reestablish Deconstruction as a rational discourse, while also highlighting its role in critiquing metaphysics. Through his exploration, Bornedal seeks to illuminate the significance of Deconstruction in contemporary philosophical discussions.

This study provides an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. It explains Nietzsche's notion of truth; It also shows how aspects of Nietzsche's thinking can be read as a sophisticated critique of ideology.

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, the book 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.