Discovering Moral Aspects of the Philosophical Discourse About Language and Consciousness With Nietzsche, Humboldt, and Levinas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. References, Citations and Abbreviations ix
5. ‘As the Spider Spins’: Introduction 1
6. I. On Metaphor and the Limits of Language
7. “To Speak in Images”: The Status of Rhetoric and Metaphor in Nietzsche’s New Language 13
8. 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) 39
9. Physiology and Language in Friedrich Nietzsche: “The Guiding Thread of the Body” 63
10. II. On Language, Emotion, and Morality
11. Discovering Moral Aspects of the Philosophical Discourse About Language and Consciousness With Nietzsche, Humboldt, and Levinas 91
12. Vulnerabilities of Agency: Kant and Nietzsche on Political Community 107
13. What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions. Nietzsche’s Critique of Moral Language as the Shaping of a New Ethical Paradigm 129
14. III. On Language, Self-Expression, and Consciousness
15. The Absence and the Other. Nietzsche and Derrida Against Husserl 161
16. Drives, Instincts, Language, and Consciousness in Daybreak 119: ‘Erleben und Erdichten’ 179
17. Consciousness, Communication, and Self-Expression. Towards an Interpretation of Aphorism 354 of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science 197
18. The Spinning of Masks. Nietzsche’s Praise of Language 233
19. IV. On Language, Self-Expression, and Style
20. The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra’s Star 257
21. ‘And so I Will Tell Myself the Story of my Life’. Nietzsche in His Last Letters (1885–1889) 281
22. Contributors 297
23. Complete Bibliography 298
24. Name Index 307
25. Subject Index 309