Dec 24, 2009
[A French critic and educator, Granier is the author of Le Probleme de la verite dans la philosophie de Nietzsche (1966). In the following essay he investigates Nietzsche's philosophy of the nature of truth.]
One of the principal themes in Nietzschean thought is "the interpretive character of all that happens. No event exists in itself. Everything that happens consists of a group of phenomena that are gathered and selected by an interpretive being." For Nietzsche, these phenomena are not masks attached to a thing in itself, some lesser beings, or nothingness, or facts; their being belongs to an interpretive process, which consists only in the difference between an interpreting activity and a text. Being is text. It appears and makes sense; and the sense is multiple, manifested not in the way that an object is for a subject, but as an interpretation that is itself construed in terms of a multiplicity...
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