As the spider spins : essays on Nietzsche's critique and use of language / edited by João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Constâncio, João.

Mayer Branco, Maria João.

Series:

Nietzsche today.

Nietzsche today, 2191-5741

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nietzsche's metaphor of the spider that spins its cobweb expresses his critique of the metaphysical use of language - but it also suggests that ‟we, spiders‟, are able to spin different, life-affirming, healthier, non-metaphysical cobwebs. This book is a collection of 12 essays that focus not only on Nietzsche's critique of the metaphysical assumptions of language, but also on his effort to use language in a different way, i.e., to create a ‟new language‟. It is from this viewpoint that the book considers such themes as consciousness, the self, metaphor, instinct, affectivity, style, morality, truth, and knowledge. The authors invited to contribute to this volume are Nietzsche scholars who belong to some of the most important research centers of the European Nietzsche-Research: Centro Colli-Montinari (Italy), GIRN (Europhilosphie), SEDEN (Spain), Greifswald Research Group (Germany), NIL (Portugal). In 2011 João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco edited Nietzsche on Instinct and Language, also published by Walter de Gruyter. The two books complement each other.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

References, Citations and Abbreviations

‘As the Spider Spins’: Introduction

“To Speak in Images”: The Status of Rhetoric and Metaphor in Nietzsche’s New Language

Knowledge, Truth, and the Thing-in-itself: The Presence of Schopenhauer’s Transcendental Idealism in Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)

Physiology and Language in Friedrich Nietzsche: “The Guiding Thread of the Body”

Discovering Moral Aspects of the Philosophical Discourse About Language and Consciousness With Nietzsche, Humboldt, and Levinas

Vulnerabilities of Agency: Kant and Nietzsche on Political Community

What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions. Nietzsche’s Critique of Moral Language as the Shaping of a New Ethical Paradigm

The Absence and the Other. Nietzsche and Derrida Against Husserl

Drives, Instincts, Language, and Consciousness in Daybreak 119: ‘Erleben und Erdichten’

Consciousness, Communication, and Self-Expression. Towards an Interpretation of Aphorism 354 of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science

The Spinning of Masks. Nietzsche’s Praise of Language

The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra’s Star

‘And so I Will Tell Myself the Story of my Life’. Nietzsche in His Last Letters (1885–1889)

Contributors

Complete Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781283858021

1283858029

9783110281125

3110281120

9783110281132

3110281139

OCLC:

796384270