Nietzsche and “we knowers”: Comments on Reginster's <i>The Will to Nothingness</i>

Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality is strikingly book-ended by theme knowledge-seeking: Preface opens with ominous claim that “[w]e are unknown to ourselves, we knowers”, and Third Essay's climax assertion scientific, scholarly activity does not stand in opposition ascetic ideal but instead only ideal's most recent insidious instantiation. This feature text absent from Reginster's The Will Nothingness. Nonetheless, interpretive machinery Reginster develops his reading as a genealogy critique morality can also go long way towards helping us make sense as, at same time, knowledge-seeking. Making use account this serves illuminate both power some limitations reading.