“As with Bees”? Notes on Instinct and Language in Nietzsche and Herder

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. References, Citations and Abbreviations VII
4. Acknowledgements XIII
5. Editors’ Introduction XV
6. I. Nietzschean Beginnings and Developments
7. “As with Bees”? Notes on Instinct and Language in Nietzsche and Herder 3
8. Nietzsche on Metaphor, Musicality, and Style. From Language to the Life of the Drives 35
9. II. Dissolving an Opposition
10. What Language Do Drives Speak? 63
11. Instinct and Language in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil 80
12. Greed and Love: Genealogy, Dissolution and Therapeutic Effects of a Linguistic Difference in FW 14 117
13. III. Instinct, Language, and Philosophy
14. Afternoon Thoughts. Nietzsche and the Dogmatism of Philosophical Writing 167
15. Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of The Gay Science 185
16. IV. The Critique of Morality and the Affirmation of Life
17. Philosophy as a ‘Misunderstanding of the Body’ and the ‘Great Health’ of the New Philosophers 203
18. From the Nietzschean Interpretation of Philosophical Language to the Semiotics of Moral Phenomena: Thoughts on Beyond Good and Evil 219
19. Zarathustra’s Laughter or the Birth of Tragedy from the Experience of the Comic 243
20. 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”. 259
21. Contributors 280
22. Complete Bibliography 281
23. Name Index 291
24. Subject Index 292