1 Forthcoming in Pascal Zambito and Shunichi Takagi eds., Wittgenstein and Nietzsche. New York: Routledge. Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and future philosophers: The notion of truth in philosophy Oskari Kuusela Wittgenstein compares his attempt to teach a ‘new movement of thought’ with Nietzsche’s re-evaluation of values, and connects his conception that philosophy should be written as poetry with Nietzsche’s approach to philosophy. This chapter develops an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s remarks in light of his rejection of philosophical or metaphysical theses in the sense of true/false propositions regarding universal/exceptionless essential necessities. Whilst philosophical accounts can on Wittgenstein’s view be true, truth in philosophy, as in poetry, isn’t to be understood in terms of the truth of propositions, regardless of whether the truths in question are contingent or necessary. I suggest that Wittgenstein’s conception of truth in philosophy can help to understand what Nietzsche may have had in mind by questioning the value of truth and by proposing a re-evaluation of philosophers’ will to truth. On this account Wittgenstein emerges as one of the non-dogmatic future philosophers, whose arrival Nietzsche predicts. I conclude by outlining how Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals can be seen, not as a poorly justified piece of empirical history, but as an instance of philosophical poetry in Wittgenstein’s sense. On this interpretation, Nietzsche articulates an account of morality by proposing a novel picture (a mode of representing or envisaging) its genealogy. By putting forward this possibility he is able to question widely held assumptions about the systematicity of morality, whilst the justification and truth of Nietzsche’s alternative account is judged on the basis of its clarificatory capacity in accordance with how Wittgenstein conceives of the justification and truth of philosophical accounts. Nietzsche’s