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Nietzsche on Instinct and Language

  • Edited by: João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2011
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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.

  • Title of the new series Nietzsche Heute/Nietzsche Today
  • Wide variety of Nietzsche topics
  • Established and rising European Nietzsche scholars

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

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

    V
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    References, Citations and Abbreviations

    VII
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    Acknowledgements

    XIII
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    Editors’ Introduction

    XV
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  • I. Nietzschean Beginnings and Developments
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    “As with Bees”? Notes on Instinct and Language in Nietzsche and Herder

    3
    Andrea Christian Bertino
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    Nietzsche on Metaphor, Musicality, and Style. From Language to the Life of the Drives

    35
    Maria João Mayer Branco
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  • II. Dissolving an Opposition
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    What Language Do Drives Speak?

    63
    Patrick Wotling
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    Instinct and Language in Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

    80
    João Constâncio
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    Greed and Love: Genealogy, Dissolution and Therapeutic Effects of a Linguistic Difference in FW 14

    117
    Chiara Piazzesi
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  • III. Instinct, Language, and Philosophy
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    Afternoon Thoughts. Nietzsche and the Dogmatism of Philosophical Writing

    167
    Scarlett Marton
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    Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of The Gay Science

    185
    Werner Stegmaier
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  • IV. The Critique of Morality and the Affirmation of Life
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    Philosophy as a ‘Misunderstanding of the Body’ and the ‘Great Health’ of the New Philosophers

    203
    Marta Faustino
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    From the Nietzschean Interpretation of Philosophical Language to the Semiotics of Moral Phenomena: Thoughts on Beyond Good and Evil

    219
    André Muniz Garcia
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    Zarathustra’s Laughter or the Birth of Tragedy from the Experience of the Comic

    243
    Katia Hay
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    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
    Maria Filomena Molder
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    Contributors

    280
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    Complete Bibliography

    281
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    Name Index

    291
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    Subject Index

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110246575
eBook ISBN: 9783110246575
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110246568
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Keywords for this book
Nietzsche; Friedrich; Language; Instinct; Affectivity; Rationality
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