On Truth And Untruth: Selected Writings

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Price : 19.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780061990465
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint : HarperPerennial
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Publication date : 01 December 2010
Dimensions : 181mm X 127mm
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An essay which argues that truth is an illusion. It rejects the idea of universal constants, and claims that what we call truth is only a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.

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German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the most influential and widely read thinkers of all time. His works include Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morality, and The Will to Power. Taylor Carman is a professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.

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