Nietzsche and metaphor / Sarah Kofman ; translated, with an introduction, additional notes, and a bibliography by Duncan Large.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kofman, Sarah.

Contributor:

Large, Duncan.

Standardized Title:

Nietzsche et la métaphore. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

xlv, 239 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1993]

Summary:

This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche.

The issue of style, of why Nietzsche wrote as he did, is fundamental, on any level, to reading his texts. Some Nietzsche critics (in particular, those, such as Jean Granier, indebted to Heidegger's reading), in effect translated Nietzsche's terms back into those of a philosophy of ontology. This book (which includes an appendix specifically directed against the "Heideggerian" reading) shows how such an approach fails to interrogate the precise terms, such as "Nature" or "life, " that Nietzsche used in place of "being, " and to ask the meaning of this substitution.

Dealing with all of Nietzsche's work, this book shows how he came to arrive at that position, and that to shift the question from ontology to psychology involves an important shift in the status of metaphor. The author begins with the privilege accorded to music and sound in Nietzsche's thought, to ton as an echo of the universal human pleasure and pain that serves as a foundation to all language. The Birth of Tragedy establishes a hierarchy between the different symbolic languages, which are metaphorical transpositions of the "music" of the world, itself the most appropriate representation of the innermost essence of things.

Contents:

1 Editions of Nietzsche's Works xliii

2 Editions of Other Works xlv

I An Unheard-of and Insolent Philosophy 1

II Metaphor, Symbol, Metamorphosis 6

1 Music, the Privileged Art 6

2 The Strategic Status of Metaphor 13

3 The Rehabilitation of Metaphor 17

4 The Pre-Socratic Model 18

III The Forgetting of Metaphor 23

1 The Originary Metaphorical Activity 23

2 The Artistic Paradigm 27

3 The Rhetorical Paradigm 32

4 The Concept 35

a) Concept and Language 36

b) Concept and Principle of Reason 37

5 The Metaphors for Metaphor 40

6 Genesis of the Concept and Genesis of Justice 42

7 Forgetting, the Product of a Perspectival Shift 49

8 The Role of the Priest 51

9 Morality, the Ally of Logic 56

IV Metaphorical Architectures 59

1 Architects' Good and Bad Taste 60

a) The Beehive 61

b) The Tower, the Bastion, the Stronghold 64

c) The Egyptian Pyramid and the Roman Columbarium 66

d) The Spider 69

2 Saturnalia 74

V Nakedness, Dress 81

1 Proper, Appropriation, Property 82

2 History, Etymology, Genealogy 86

3 The Original Text, Homo Natura 92

VI Writing, Reading 101

1 To Have a Thousand Eyes 101

2 Vertigo 108

3 Misunderstanding 112

Appendix Genealogy, Interpretation, Text 120.

Notes:

Translation of: Nietzsche et la métaphore.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-190) and indexes.

"Sarah Kofman : a complete bibliography, 1963-1993": pages [191]-207.

ISBN:

0804721866

OCLC:

29981056