The will to truth
pp. 161-167
in: Babette Babich (ed), Nietzsche, epistemology, and philosophy of science II, Berlin, Springer, 1999Abstract
There are interpreters of Nietzsche's work who artlessly fit the philosophy of his last period under the unifying or equalizing umbrella of hermeneutics — which I regard as unjust. Such a seemingly infinite extension of hermeneutics generates manifest uncertainty and disquiet on the poorly protected margins of philosophical hermeneutics. The best tactical move for hermeneutics is to leave other fields of interpretation open while yet simultaneously preserving its own territory. Nietzsche's interpretive philosophy, providing us with the opportunity to reconsider the problems of interpretation, language, consciousness, etc., thus offers an essential challenge.
