Constâncio / Mayer Branco Nietzsche on Instinct and Language

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-024657-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band (1), 319 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Nietzsche Today

This volume consists of the revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the International Conference “Nietzsche On Instinct and Language”, held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) in December 2009. The list of contributors includes top Nietzsche scholars, like Werner Stegmaier, Patrick Wotling, and Scarlett Marton.
The volume as a whole represents a fresh look at Nietzsche’s attempt to connect language to the instinctive activity of the human body. Four of the papers focus on Nietzsche’s early notes and writings, including and ; the other seven deal with his mature views on this important subject, especially in , , and the . 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 consider, from this viewpoint, such Nietzschean themes as morality, value, the concept of philosophy, dogmatism, naturalization, metaphor, affectivity and emotion, health and sickness, tragedy, and laughter.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Constâncio, João

Mayer Branco, Maria João

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;References, Citations, and Abbreviations;8
3;Acknowledgements;14
4;Editors’ Introduction;16
5;I. Nietzschean Beginnings and Developments;26
5.1;‘As with Bees?’ Notes on Instinct and Language in Nietzsche and Herder;28
5.2;Nietzsche on Metaphor, Musicality, and Style. From Language to the Life of the Drives;60
6;II. Dissolving an Opposition;86
6.1;What Language Do Drives Speak?;88
6.2;Instinct and Language in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil;105
6.3;Greed and Love: Genealogy, Dissolution and Therapeutical Effects of a Linguistic Distinction in FW 14;142
7;III. Instinct, Language, and Philosophy;190
7.1;Afternoon Thoughts. Nietzsche and the Dogmatism of Philosophical Writing;192
7.2;Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of the Gay Science;210
8;IV. The Critique of Morality and the Affi rmation of Life;226
8.1;Philosophy as a ‘Misunderstanding of the Body’ and the ‘Great Health’ of the New Philosophers;228
8.2;From the Nietzschean Interpretation of Philosophical Language to the Semiotics of Moral Phenomena: Thoughts on Beyond Good and Evil;244
8.3;Zarathustra’s Laughter or the Birth of Tragedy from the Experience of the Comic;268
8.4;Stammering in a Strange Tongue: The Limits of Language in The Birth of Tragedy in the Light of Nietzsches ‘Attempt At a Self-Criticism’;284
9;Contributors;305
10;Complete Bibliography;306
11;Name Index;316
12;Subject Index;317

Über Autor(innen)

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