ABSTRACT
Arthur Schopenhauer's theory of representations rejects Immanuel Kant's balance between consciousness and objectivity and instead places the emphasis on the subjective construction of phenomenal experience. It takes the work of Friedrich Nietzsche to draw the full implications of this rethinking of Immanuel Kant as he develops his Kantian theories of epistemological perspectivism and the categorical will to power. Arthur Schopenhauer argues that Immanuel Kant's theory of knowledge must be systematically and methodically reconstructed to avoid the contradictions and to uncover its hidden meaning. Friedrich Nietzsche will pick up the interpretations of Immanuel Kant to develop a more radical critique of knowledge found in his theory of perspectivism. Lange views Kant as mediating between two extreme and important philosophical traditions: materialism and skepticism. The flowering of classical Greek mythology and tragedy with its pantheon of gods offered a response to the dilemma of Silenus, a follower of Dionysus.
