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Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Problem of the Philosophy of Science and Nietzsche's Question of Ground The Plan of the Text Chapter 1 Nietzsche's Musical Stylistics: Writing a Philosophy of Science The Hermeneutic Challenge of Nietzsche's Elitism: Style and Interpretive Affinity Philosophic Concinnity: The Spirit of Music and Nietzschean Style The Project of Communication: Self-Deconstruction and Nietzschean Selectivity Nietzsche's Style: A Mechanical Model Chapter 2 Science as Interpretation: The Light of Philology The Question of a Nietzsche-Styled Philosophy of Science Towards a Nietzschean Critique of Science Nietzsche's Perspectivalism: The Spectre ofRelativism and the Spirit of Difference Truth, Pragmatism, and Relativism: Realism a nd theReal The Meaning of Critique: Nietzschean Possibilitiesfor Philosophy Nietzsche and Science: The Question of Validity Chapter 3 On the Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge: Nietzsche's Epistemology The Question of Nietzsche's Epistemology: Critique and Ground The Knower and the Known The Problem of Knowledge in its Ecophysiological Ground The Empirical Basis of Transcendent Knowledge Perspectivalism as Epistemology Multiplicity as Interpretational Truth: The Metaphysical Fiction of an Absolute A Note on the Typology of Science and Philosophy: The will to Power Beyond Truth and Lie Chapter 4 Under the Optics of Art and Life: Nietzsche and Science Resumé The Ecophysiological Ground of Knowledge Science and Nihilism Reality and Truth: The Domination of Truth Science: Reality and Illusion The Meaning of Nature and Chaos: A Note on Nietzsche's ""Chaos sive natura"" Reality and Illusion: The Interpretive Dynamic Chapter 5 Nietzsche's Genealogy of Science: Morality and the Values of Modernity The Genealogy of Morals and the Value of Science The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation Ressentiment: Science and Culture Without Price: The Will to Truth as the Will toLife Science and Inadequacy Duplicity: Science and the Ascetic Ideal The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation Science as an Aesthetic Achievement: Méconnaissance Vesuvius: ""Gefährdete Menschen, fruchtbarer Menschen"" Chapter 6 Toward a Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth A Perspectivalist Philosophy of Science A Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth Truth as Illusion The Illusion of Truth and the Question of the Eternal Feminine sContra-Morality-Again The Aesthetics of Illusion Creation and Affirmation Chapter 7 A Dionysian Philosophy: Art in the Light of Life The Eternal Return of the Same: Interpretation and Will Ressentiment and Amor Fati The Perspectival Dominance of Decadence Dionysian Aesthetic Pessimism The Troping of the Eternal Return: An Aposematic Aposiopesis Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

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The author succeeds in penetrating the cloud of suspicion, incomprehension, and distrust that for contemporary readers surrounds Nietzsche's writing and shows how the most audacious provocateur or nineteenth-century German wissenschaftliche circles, can speak with real insight to our times about our own very contemporary philosophical crises. - New Nietzsche Studies One could argue that the philosophy of science is one of the most important issues in contemporary culture. Babich, looking at the problem through the lens of Nietzsche, argues persuasively that it will not do to try to theorize science on the basis of its own value system, since the result will always be one form or another of self-validation. With Nietzsche's help, she proposes to frame science from the point of view of aesthetics- science in the light of art -in order to provide a different, possibly more enlightening perspective on the claims and aspirations of science. I like Babich's tough, at times even racy, rhetoric. - Clayton Koelb, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill One of the more important issues raised is the assertion that Nietzsche's perspectivism, far from dooming the scientific enterprise, energizes it. Another important claim is that Nietzsche is a proper philosopher because he, like other philosophers, is driven by the desire for knowledge. But the most important claim, the most contentious, and the one that most deserves a hearing and discussion, is the assertion that Nietzsche is a serious philosopher of science. - Debra Bergoffen, George Mason University The author makes a genuinely significant contribution to the dialogue between science and philosophy. The nuances of her text make it very rich, and the bite of her wit keeps the reader awake throughout. I really enjoyed and appreciated this effort-one of the finest works on Nietzsche that I have read. - Susan Schoenbohm, University of the South

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Babette E. Babich is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, The College at Lincoln Center.

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