This book offers an original interpretation and a critical assessment of Friederich Nietzsche's influential work on the traditionally central questions of philosophy concerning the possibility of knowledge and the nature of reality. Dr Poellner draws upon not only Nietzsche's published works but also his voluminous notebooks, largely unpublished.

`those wishing to discover a "new" yet "traditional" Nietzsche may eaily encounter him in Nietzsche and Metaphysics.' Christopher Adair-Toteff, German Studies Review `Poellner's study must supplant Schact's as the standard point of departure for any future treatment of Nietzsche's metaphysical views ... Poellner's treatment of these themes is unusually thorough and philosophically rich ... substantial, scholarly.' Brian Letter, Mind `Peter Poellner's book ... subjects Nietzsche's thinking to rigorous scrutiny. He is, however, sufficiently touched by the grandeur of Nietzsche's overall project to lend his considerable analytic skills to a sympathetic reconstruction ... This is an extremely intelligent, closely-argued book that deserves the attention of any serious Nietzsche scholar.' Times Higher Education Supplement `Poellner brings philosophical learning of an impressive scope to bear on his reading of Nietzsche ... Poellner leads the reader down a lengthy and winding path ... the path is one worth taking, not so much for its ultimate destination, which is a familiar rejection of Nietzsche's antiessentialism and psychology, but rather for the engaging twists and turns it takes along the way' Samuel Kerstein, University of Maryland at College Park, Review of Metaphysics, March 1997 `Poellner is commendably cautious in the claims he makes for his various interpretations, but the picture that he outlines in Nietzsche and Metaphysics is of a rather more wide-ranging epsitemological and metaphysical base to Nietzche's thought than one might suspect from even a close reading of the published works.' Jose Luis Bermudez, BJHP