Nietzsche on Instinct and Language (eBook)

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

Contents 6
References, Citations, and Abbreviations 8
Acknowledgements 14
Editors’ Introduction 16
I. Nietzschean Beginnings and Developments 26
‘As with Bees?’ Notes on Instinct and Language in Nietzsche and Herder 28
Nietzsche on Metaphor, Musicality, and Style. From Language to the Life of the Drives 60
II. Dissolving an Opposition 86
What Language Do Drives Speak? 88
Instinct and Language in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil 105
Greed and Love: Genealogy, Dissolution and Therapeutical Effects of a Linguistic Distinction in FW 14 142
III. Instinct, Language, and Philosophy 190
Afternoon Thoughts. Nietzsche and the Dogmatism of Philosophical Writing 192
Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of the Gay Science 210
IV. The Critique of Morality and the Affi rmation of Life 226
Philosophy as a ‘Misunderstanding of the Body’ and the ‘Great Health’ of the New Philosophers 228
From the Nietzschean Interpretation of Philosophical Language to the Semiotics of Moral Phenomena: Thoughts on Beyond Good and Evil 244
Zarathustra’s Laughter or the Birth of Tragedy from the Experience of the Comic 268
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
Contributors 305
Complete Bibliography 306
Name Index 316
Subject Index 317