Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition by Jessica N Berry

Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition by Jessica N Berry

The impact of Nietzsche's engagement with the Greek skeptics has never before been systematically explored in a book-length work - an inattention that belies the interpretive weight scholars otherwise attribute to his early career as a professor of classical philology and to the fascination with Greek literature and culture that persisted throughout his productive academic life. Jessica N. Berry fills this gap in the literature on Nietzsche by demonstrating how an understanding of the Pyrrhonian skeptical tradition illuminates Nietzsche's own reflections on truth, knowledge, and ultimately, the nature and value of philosophic inquiry. This entirely new reading of Nietzsche's epistemological and ethical views promises to make clear and render coherent his provocative but often opaque remarks on the topics of truth and knowledge and to grant us further insight into his ethics-since the Greek skeptics, like Nietzsche, take up the position they do as a means of promoting well-being and psychological health. In addition, it allows us to recover a portrait of Nietzsche as a philologist and philosophical psychologist that has been too often obscured by commentaries on his thought.

Berry's book is eminently readable, providing many notes of comparison and contrast, all pointing us toward ancient as opposed to modern skepticism* Philosophy in Review *

Jessica N. Berry is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University

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ISBN 13	9780195368420
ISBN 10	0195368428
Title	Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition
Author	Jessica N Berry
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2010-12-23
Number of pages	248
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