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Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nietzsche as Metaphysician

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Nietzsche as Metaphysician

Justin Remhof is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Old Dominion University and the author of Nietzsche’s Constructivism: A Metaphysics of Material Objects. His new book, Nietzsche as Metaphysician, examines aspects of Nietzsche’s thought that have received little attention in the literature, including his view of what makes metaphysics possible; his metaphysics of science; his naturalized metaphysics; how he appeals to the intuitions of readers; how he employs a priori reasoning; how he uses metaphysical grounding explanations; and how metaphysics is intertwined with topics central to his philosophical thinking, including his understanding of becoming, ethics, nihilism, life, perspective, amor fati, and eternal recurrence. In this Recently Published Book Spotlight, Remhof discusses Nietzsche as a metaphysical constructivist, his work as a neo-Kantian, and, in short, why we should view Nietzsche in a new light. What is your work about? This book defends the controversial view that Nietzsche should be read as a metaphysical philosopher. I offer a metametaphysical treatment of Nietzsche’s writings to show that for Nietzsche the questions, answers, methods, and subject matters of metaphysical philosophy are not only …