As the Spider Spins: Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of Language

Published by De Gruyter 2012

As the Spider Spins

Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of Language

Edited by: João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco

Volume (2) in the series Nietzsche Today

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110281125

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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.

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João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
References, Citations and Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
‘As the Spider Spins’: Introduction João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. On Metaphor and the Limits of Language
“To Speak in Images”: The Status of Rhetoric and Metaphor in Nietzsche’s New Language Céline Denat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
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) Luís Sousa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Physiology and Language in Friedrich Nietzsche: “The Guiding Thread of the Body” Luis Enrique de Santiago Guervós Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
II. On Language, Emotion, and Morality
Discovering Moral Aspects of the Philosophical Discourse About Language and Consciousness With Nietzsche, Humboldt, and Levinas Andrea Bertino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Vulnerabilities of Agency: Kant and Nietzsche on Political Community Tom Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions. Nietzsche’s Critique of Moral Language as the Shaping of a New Ethical Paradigm Chiara Piazzesi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
III. On Language, Self-Expression, and Consciousness
The Absence and the Other. Nietzsche and Derrida Against Husserl Jaanus Sooväli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Drives, Instincts, Language, and Consciousness in Daybreak 119: ‘Erleben und Erdichten’ Luca Lupo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Consciousness, Communication, and Self-Expression. Towards an Interpretation of Aphorism 354 of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science João Constâncio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
The Spinning of Masks. Nietzsche’s Praise of Language Maria João Mayer Branco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
IV. On Language, Self-Expression, and Style
The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra’s Star Bartholomew Ryan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
‘And so I Will Tell Myself the Story of my Life’. Nietzsche in His Last Letters (1885–1889) Maria Cristina Fornari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Complete Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 313
Keywords: Language; Consciousness and the Self; Philosophy; Style; Affectivity

eBook

Published: May 29, 2012
ISBN: 9783110281125

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Published: June 14, 2012
ISBN: 9783110280906