As the Spider Spins : : Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of 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: Bailey, Tom,; Bertino, Andrea,; Branco, Maria João Mayer,; Constâncio, João,; Denat, Céline,; Fornari, Maria Cristina,; Guervós, Luis Enrique de Santiago,; Lupo, Luca,; Piazzesi, Chiara,; Ryan, Bartholomew,; Sooväli, Jaanus,; Sousa, Luís,
• HerausgeberIn: Constâncio, João,; Mayer Branco, Maria João,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Nietzsche Today , (2)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- References, Citations and Abbreviations -- ‘As the Spider Spins’: Introduction -- I. On Metaphor and the Limits of Language -- “To Speak in Images”: The Status of Rhetoric and Metaphor in Nietzsche’s New Language -- 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) -- Physiology and Language in Friedrich Nietzsche: “The Guiding Thread of the Body” -- II. On Language, Emotion, and Morality -- Discovering Moral Aspects of the Philosophical Discourse About Language and Consciousness With Nietzsche, Humboldt, and Levinas -- Vulnerabilities of Agency: Kant and Nietzsche on Political Community -- What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions. Nietzsche’s Critique of Moral Language as the Shaping of a New Ethical Paradigm -- III. On Language, Self-Expression, and Consciousness -- The Absence and the Other. Nietzsche and Derrida Against Husserl -- Drives, Instincts, Language, and Consciousness in Daybreak 119: ‘Erleben und Erdichten’ -- Consciousness, Communication, and Self-Expression. Towards an Interpretation of Aphorism 354 of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science -- The Spinning of Masks. Nietzsche’s Praise of Language -- IV. On Language, Self-Expression, and Style -- The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra’s Star -- ‘And so I Will Tell Myself the Story of my Life’. Nietzsche in His Last Letters (1885–1889) -- Contributors -- Complete Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index