Neither mental nor material: The hypothesis of the will to power as a deconstructive exercise
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Nietzsche, Deconstruction, Panpsychism, Will to powerAbstract
Paragraph 36 of Beyond Good and Evil has been, and continues to be, the subject of controversy. Many interpreters disavow its line of argument as incompatible with other key passages in Nietzsche's work and propose to conceive it either as a philosophical attempt that Nietzsche soon abandons, or as a self-conscious myth or an exoteric fable of no proper theoretical value. This article attempts to respond to these assessments by proposing an alternative reading of this paragraph, rehabilitating it, and understanding it as a deconstructive exercise of the opposition between mind and matter.
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