Nietzsche's Critique of Truth

Abstract

Citations from Nietzsche's works are by section numbers with abbreviations of the relevant title prefixed. A list of these abbreviations and the editions used is given below. In the case of Ecce HIomo and Baeumler's edition of the Collected Works this method was inappropriate. For citations from Ecce Homo page numbers from the below listed translation are used. In citations from the Baeumler edition, volume and page number are cited. A The Antichrist trans. R. J. Hollingdale in Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist, Penguin, Middlesex, 1968. BGE Beyond Good and Evil, trans. W. Kaufman, Vintage, New York, 1966. EH Ecce Ilomo, trans. W. Kaufman, in On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, Vintage, New York, 1969. D Daybreak, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982. GM On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. W. Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale, in On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, Vintage, New York, 1969. GS The Gay Science, trans. W. Kaufman, Vintage, New York, 1974. HAH Iluman, All too Human, trans. M. Faber, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1984. SW Samtliche Werke in Zwolf Banden, ed. by Alfred Baeulmer, Alfred Kroner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1965. TI Twilight of the Idols, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, in Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist, Penguin, Middlesex, 1968. WTP The Will to Power, trans. W. Kaufman and R. J. Hollingdale, ed. W. Kaufman, Vintage, New York, 1968. Z Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Penguin, Middlesex, 1975. 2 This denial of the existence of truth can not be dismissed as mere hyperbole since it is repeated consistently. For instance, WTP notes 540,616,625 and 804, and EH 256.