by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · Libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070389964
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«Vérité et mensonge au sens extra-moral» is the philosophical essay by Friedrich Nietzsche, published by Gallimard Education in paperback (128 pages, in French).
In this early essay, Nietzsche reflects on truth as a convention created by language, not as an objective reality; he analyses the origin of concepts and shows how metaphors become fossilised. The text anticipates his critique of knowledge and his genealogical method for revealing the emotional roots of moral judgements.
Work written in 1873 and published posthumously. Original title: «Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne». This edition includes a dossier by Dorian Astor and an image reading by Morad Montazami.
Suitable for philosophy students and readers interested in Nietzsche's early period, before «Thus Spoke Zarathustra».
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, at age 24, he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel. Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879. He afterward lived as an independent writer, spending much of his life in relative solitude and financial insecurity while moving between Switzerland, Italy, and southern France in search of climates that might alleviate his condition, and in the following decade, he completed much of his core writing. In 1889, aged 44, he suffered a neurological collapse, and thereafter a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and vascular dementia; he lived out his remaining 11 years, first under the care of his mother, and later his sister, until his death. His works and his philosophy have fostered not only extensive scholarship but also much popular interest.
