As the spider spins : essays on Nietzsche's Critique and use of language (Nietzche Today) (Nietzsche Today, (2))

"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 Constãncio and Maria João Mayer Branco edited Nietzsche on Instinct and Language, also published by Walter de Gruyter. The two books complement each other."--Publisher's website Acknowledgements 6 Contents 8 References, Citations and Abbreviations 10 ‘As the Spider Spins’: Introduction by João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco 16 I 16 II 19 III 19 PART I: ON METAPHOR AND THE LIMITS OF LANGUAGE 26 1. “To Speak in Images”: The Status of Rhetoric and Metaphor in Nietzsche’s New Language by Céline Denat 28 Rhetoric as a Force Inherent to Language 31 A “New Language”: Learning how to “Use Language as an Artist” 37 The Metaphor as a Transposition Process 43 Conclusion: “To Speak in Images – and Without Images” 50 Bibliography 52 2. 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) by Luís Sousa 54 1 Schopenhauer’s Transcendental Idealism 55 2 Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense 61 a) Language, Metaphor and Truth 62 b) Schopenhauer’s Legacy 68 c) The Thing-in-itself and the Standard of Truth in TL 72 Bibliography 76 3. Physiology and Language in Friedrich Nietzsche: “The Guiding Thread of the Body” by Luis Enrique de Santiago Guervós 78 1 Diagnosis of Language and Its Creative Function. Instinct and Language 79 2. The Metaphorisation of Language: Another, New Way of Speaking 86 3. The “New Language” of the Physiology of Art as an Expression of “True Realities” 91 4. The Paradoxes of a Radical Criticism of Language. The “Lack of an Appropriate Language” and Linguistic Pragmatism as a Solution 97 Bibliography 101 PART II: ON LANGUAGE, EMOTION, AND MORALITY 104 4. Discovering Moral Aspects of the Philosophical Discourse About Language and Consciousness With Nietzsche, Humboldt, and Levinas by Andrea Bertino 106 I 106 II 112 III 116 Bibliography 120 5. Vulnerabilities of Agency: Kant and Nietzsche on Political Community by Tom Bailey 122 1. Kant and Nietzsche on Autonomy and Moral Community 123 2.1 ‘The Unity of All Places on the Earth’s Surface’: Kant on Political Community 128 2.2 Power, Ressentiment and Equality: Nietzsche on Political Community 131 3. Vulnerabilities of Agency 136 Bibliography 141 6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions. Nietzsche’s Critique of Moral Language as the Shaping of a New Ethical Paradigm by Chiara Piazzesi 144 1. Gay Science 14: A Critical Account of Our Understanding of Love 148 1.1 An Opening Terminological Clarification 148 1.2 The Gay Science 14: Sketching a Psychological Inquiry Through a Critique of Language 153 2. Emotions, Social Construction, and Individual Psychology 156 3. Love as Passion: Genealogy and Features of a Technique de Soi 159 4. Closing Remarks: Ethical Self-Government and Emotional Work 167 Bibliography 171 PART III: ON LANGUAGE, SELF-EXPRESSION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS 174 7. The Absence and the Other. Nietzsche and Derrida Against Husserl by Jaanus Sooväli 176 1. Introduction 176 2. Presentation and Re-Presentation 177 3. Auto-Affection and Subjectivity 183 4. The Possibly Extravagant Conjecture 184 Bibliography 191 8. Drives, Instincts, Language, and Consciousness in Daybreak 119: ‘Erleben und Erdichten’ by Luca Lupo 194 I 194 II 197 III 199 IV 202 V 204 VI 207 Bibliography 210 9. Consciousness, Communication, and Self-Expression. Towards an Interpretation of Aphorism 354 of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science by João Constâncio 212 1. Introduction 212 2. Consciousness 213 2.1 Conceptualisation and Communication-Signs 213 2.2 Intentionality, Self-Consciousness, and Communality 219 3. Sensations, Schemata, and Our ‘Triebleben’ 231 4. Self-Expression 240 Bibliography 245 10. The Spinning of Masks. Nietzsche’s Praise of Language by Maria João Mayer Branco 248 1. “Where Words are Lacking” 249 2. The Tear 252 3. Skin, Mask and Individuation 254 4. Pereat Ego. “Our Redlichkeit” 258 5. Idolatry and Ideophilia. The Case of Plato 261 6. Actio in Distans 264 Bibliography 267 IV. On Language, Self-Expression, and Style 270 11. The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra’s Star by Bartholomew Ryan 272 1. What Is a Star? 273 2. Transforming the Language of Philosophy 279 Bibliography 295 12. ‘And so I Will Tell Myself the Story of my Life’. Nietzsche in His Last Letters (1885–1889) by Maria Cristina Fornari 296 Bibliography 311 Contributors 312 Complete Bibliography 313 Name Index 322 Subject Index 324 "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 Constãncio and Maria João Mayer Branco edited Nietzsche on Instinct and Language, also published by Walter de Gruyter. The two books complement each other."--Publisher's website 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. Main description: 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, non-metaphysical cobwebs. This book focuses 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