Alexander Nehamas, a Princeton professor, examines Nietzsche's thought by exploring the paradoxes found in his writing and in what is produced by his writing. He investigates Nietzsche's perspectivism in search of how seriously he accepted his own ideas as truth, and how this influences attempts at interpretation of his works. He then analyzes Nietzsche's aestheticism in connection with his perspectivism, and how this leads him to observe and critique the world as if it were a literary text, and discusses within this interpretative framework Nietzsche's ideas of the will to power, the eternal recurrence, and his attack on morality.