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SUMMARY:Is Nietzsche's On Truth and Lies In A Non-Moral Sense a Work of Fi
 ction or a Work of Philosophy - Sam Cane\, Department of Philosophy\, Durh
 am University
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CONTACT:Thanh-Lan Gluckman
DESCRIPTION:Hume\, like Nietzsche\, published his first major work\, the T
 reatise\, at the age of twenty-eight\, and\, just as Hume followed his sem
 inal debut with the Essays Moral and Political\, Nietzsche devoted his ene
 rgies immediately after The Birth of Tragedy to a series of discourses\, t
 he Untimely Meditations. Outside of their scope\, though\, fell a work ini
 tially unpublished\, ‘On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense’ (1873). 
 Beginning his thesis in the form of a fairy tale\, Nietzsche goes on to ar
 gue that “Truths are illusions we have forgotten are illusions”\, his 
 contention that Man creates fantasies to substitute unpalatable aspects of
  his existence\, consciously obscuring his true circumstances beneath a ve
 il of false desires and precarious ideals.\n\nThis paper\, discussing the 
 stylistic and generic nuances of Nietzsche’s essay\, examines whether it
  is ultimately a work of fiction or of philosophy. In considering that int
 erdisciplinary question\, I focus upon a range of Classical and Early Mode
 rn texts\, evaluative\, poetic\, dramatic\, political\, and psychoanalytic
 al\, that themselves explore humanity’s propensity for myth-making in th
 e name of a romanticised rather than objective empiricism.\n
LOCATION:N7\, Pembroke College
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