Francesca Cauchi: Nietzsche's Rhetoric, Gebunden

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This book excavates the rhetorical devices that Nietzsche habitually uses and demonstrates how they circumscribe rather than expand the reader s interpretive horizon. Through a sustained analysis of Nietzsche s rhetorical style, stratagems, and didactic aims in two of his early works ( On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense and Daybreak) and two of his later works (Beyond Good and Evil and Twilight of the Idols), the book assesses the extent to which Nietzsche s substantial rhetorical arsenal undermines the philosophical claims he is seeking to advance. The four case studies also bring to the fore some of the less palatable aspects of Nietzsche s thought such as racial stereotyping, the essentialising of a so-called slave mentality, and the ranking of human beings based on a highly idiosyncratic and prejudiced view of what qualifies as noble and ignoble.