Nietzsche on instinct and language / edited by João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference "Nietzsche on Instinct and Language", Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Constâncio, João.

Mayer Branco, Maria João.

Conference Name:

International Conference "Nietzsche on Instinct and Language" (2009 : Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

International Conference "Nietzsche on Instinct and Language"

Series:

Nietzsche today.

Nietzsche today, 2191-5741

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy--Congresses.

Language and languages.

Instinct (Philosophy)--Congresses.

Instinct (Philosophy).

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900--Congresses.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume offers various considerations of Nietzsche's attempt to connect language to the instinctive activity of the human body. In focusing on how Nietzsche tries to dissolve the traditional opposition between instinct and language, as well as between instinct and consciousness and instinct and reason, the different papers address a great variety of topics, e.g. morality, value, the concept of philosophy, dogmatism, naturalization, metaphor, affectivity and emotion, health and sickness, tragedy, and laughter. Among the authors: Scarlett Marton, Werner Stegmaier, Patrick Wotling, and many ot

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

References, Citations and Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Editors’ Introduction

“As with Bees”? Notes on Instinct and Language in Nietzsche and Herder

Nietzsche on Metaphor, Musicality, and Style. From Language to the Life of the Drives

What Language Do Drives Speak?

Instinct and Language in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

Greed and Love: Genealogy, Dissolution and Therapeutic Effects of a Linguistic Difference in FW 14

Afternoon Thoughts. Nietzsche and the Dogmatism of Philosophical Writing

Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of The Gay Science

Philosophy as a ‘Misunderstanding of the Body’ and the ‘Great Health’ of the New Philosophers

From the Nietzschean Interpretation of Philosophical Language to the Semiotics of Moral Phenomena: Thoughts on Beyond Good and Evil

Zarathustra’s Laughter or the Birth of Tragedy from the Experience of the Comic

Stammering in a Strange Tongue: The Limits of Language in The Birth of Tragedy in the Light of Nietzsche’s “Attempt at a Self-Criticism”.

Contributors

Complete Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613399779

9783110481761

3110481766

9781283399777

1283399776

9783110246575

3110246570

OCLC:

748242210