The attack wasn't that you were "mean" to Nietzsche, it's that you obviously haven't read him and dismissed a sophomoric caricature of him. You weren't wrong that he's anti- your thin conception of Enlightenment.https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1013154868901621760 …
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I think that one of the greatest Nietzsche's contribution to the Enlightenment (à la Diderot) could be found in On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873) since its very beginning http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl201/modules/Philosophers/Nietzsche/Truth_and_Lie_in_an_Extra-Moral_Sense.htm …
Nietzsche never published that essay, wisely, as it's argument is a mess. As Maudemarie Clark demonstrated 28 years ago, he abandoned the views expressed therein.
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I don't know this book by Maudemarie Clark https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nietzsche-on-truth-and-philosophy/development-of-nietzsches-later-position-on-truth/ECBFB1719629148613AAAE702F5825D7 … but I wouldn't be so sure to reject the TL's refutation of the metaphysical idea of truth, which is echoed e.g. also in a renowned Twilight of the Idols passage (1889) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_of_the_Idols#How_the_%22True_World%22_Finally_Became_Fiction …
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Furthermore, the very idea of genealogy (which is a very late idea in Nietzsche) can be read as a refutation of the metaphysical idea of truth as (absolute) origin, according to M.Foucault (1971) https://noehernandezcortez.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/nietzsche-genealogy-history.pdf …, all the more so we can read the notion of will to power
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Foucault is a sloppy reader of Nietzsche. See my book "Nietzsche on Morality," I discuss Foucault's confusions about genealogy. I also don't know what is meant by a "metaphysical" idea of truth. But twitter isn't the forum for this.
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Agreed, Twitter isn't the right place to discuss such issues, but we can have good encounters here :) I will look for your book too https://global.oup.com/academic/product/nietzsche-and-morality-9780199285938?cc=it&lang=en& … In short, by metaphysical idea of truth I mean any form of transcendence (on which the perceptual world would be grounded)
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The book is my authored book "Nietzsche on Morality" (Routledge, 2nd ed, 2015), which is available in paperback.
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Sorry for my mistake and thanks againhttps://www.routledge.com/Nietzsche-on-Morality-2nd-Edition/Leiter/p/book/9780415856805 …
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You're welcome, I hope you find the discussion of these issues there useful.
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