Challenging the view that Nietzsche's work ultimately reinforces what he calls the "will to truth" (the conviction that nothing is needed more than truth and that everything else has only second-rate value), I argue that Nietzsche shows such faith in truth to be self-defeating. The result of a moral imperative to avoid deceiving, the unconditional value of truth culminates in modern science and the rejection of the metaphysics underlying its founding morality. Having led truthfulness to infer its own demise, Nietzsche (...) attempts to foster a love of surfaces in the spirit of the Greeks, who were "superficial out of profundity.". (shrink)