Ambiguity and the Absolute: Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth

1. Nietzche on Self-Differentiation and Genealogy

This chapter traces Nietzsche's thinking on the origins of the human ability for predication. Predication for Nietzsche is a process that transforms objects into what they are not. This primary ability of ours reveals that the essence of both the world and subjectivity is self-differentiation. For this ability to take distance from the world which predication exhibits, could not be grounded in any self-identity. "Being" comes to designate self-differentiated objects.