This book excavates the rhetorical devices that Nietzsche habitually uses and explains how they constitute a distinctive form of philosophical argumentation. Through a sustained, in-depth examination of Nietzsche’s rhetorical style, stratagems and didactic purpose in two of his early works (‘On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense’ and ) and two of his later works ( and ), the book provides both exposition and critique of Nietzsche’s extensive rhetorical arsenal and assesses the extent to which these ploys support or undermine the philosophical claims he is seeking to advance. The four case studies also bring to the fore some of the less palatable aspects of Nietzsche’s thought such as racial stereotyping, the essentialising of a so-called slave mentality, and the ranking of human beings based on a highly idiosyncratic and prejudiced view of what qualifies as noble and ignoble. weiterlesen