Nietzsche on Instinct and Language / / ed. by João Constâncio, Maria João Mayer Branco.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bertino, Andrea Christian,; Branco, Maria João Mayer,; Constâncio, João,; Faustino, Marta,; Garcia, André Muniz,; Hay, Katia,; Marton, Scarlett,; Molder, Maria Filomena,; Piazzesi, Chiara,; Stegmaier, Werner,; Wotling, Patrick,
• HerausgeberIn: Constâncio, João,; Mayer Branco, Maria João,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Nietzsche Today , (1)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 p.)

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 Nachlass notes and writings, including The Birth of Tragedy and On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense; the other seven deal with his mature views on this important subject, especially in Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science, and the Nachlass. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- References, Citations and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Editors’ Introduction -- I. Nietzschean Beginnings and Developments -- “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 -- II. Dissolving an Opposition -- 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 -- III. Instinct, Language, and Philosophy -- Afternoon Thoughts. Nietzsche and the Dogmatism of Philosophical Writing -- Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of The Gay Science -- IV. The Critique of Morality and the Affirmation of Life -- 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