As the Spider Spins : : Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of Language /

As the Spider Spins : : Essays on Nietzsche’s Critique and Use of Language / / ed. by João Constâncio, Maria João Mayer Branco.

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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 o...

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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)
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Physical Description:1 online resource (313 p.)
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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

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