Maudmarie Clark's 1990 book arguing that Nietzsche's perspectivism evolved significantly — his early 'On Truth and Lies' position was untenable and he knew it, and his mature position takes truth and objectivity more seriously than his nominalist reputation suggests.
Provides the most careful analytic reading of Nietzsche's epistemology — distinguishing early and late Nietzsche on truth, showing that the mature Nietzsche's perspectivism is compatible with ordinary truth-claims — making it the necessary counterweight to the poststructuralist readings that see Nietzsche as consistently anti-realist.
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