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10. Nietzsches rhetorische Philosophie der Rhetorik

  • Werner Stegmaier
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Handbuch Rhetorik und Philosophie
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Abstract

Not only as professor of classical philology in Basel did Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) intensively work on rhetoric, especially on Greek rhetoric. He was also concerned with rhetorical questions in his entire philosophical work. His philosophy as a whole is even more rhetorical than Plato’s: he not only uses the single form of dialogue, but various forms of philosophical writing. In the center of his philosophical writing, he places, like Plato his Socrates, a mythical-historical teacher, Zarathustra, later more and more himself, in both cases a concrete, unique, and situated person in which the different lines of his philosophy converge. While Plato still sketches Socrates as a communicator of the idea of a pure truth beyond all sophistical speech, Nietzsche, after modern philosophy was no longer convinced by Plato’s epistemological optimism, changed to communication itself. Already in Plato, communication can only bet on rhetoric, not in the sense of mastery of a nice style, but in the sense of an effective use of speech. Thus Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole can be understood as a rhetorical philosophy of rhetoric, or as a kind of philosophistic.

Abstract

Not only as professor of classical philology in Basel did Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) intensively work on rhetoric, especially on Greek rhetoric. He was also concerned with rhetorical questions in his entire philosophical work. His philosophy as a whole is even more rhetorical than Plato’s: he not only uses the single form of dialogue, but various forms of philosophical writing. In the center of his philosophical writing, he places, like Plato his Socrates, a mythical-historical teacher, Zarathustra, later more and more himself, in both cases a concrete, unique, and situated person in which the different lines of his philosophy converge. While Plato still sketches Socrates as a communicator of the idea of a pure truth beyond all sophistical speech, Nietzsche, after modern philosophy was no longer convinced by Plato’s epistemological optimism, changed to communication itself. Already in Plato, communication can only bet on rhetoric, not in the sense of mastery of a nice style, but in the sense of an effective use of speech. Thus Nietzsche’s philosophy as a whole can be understood as a rhetorical philosophy of rhetoric, or as a kind of philosophistic.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber V
  3. Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
  4. Rhetorisches Philosophieren 1
  5. I. Historische Perspektiven: Von der Antike bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
  6. 1. Rhetorik und Philosophie im klassischen Griechenland 23
  7. 2. Rhetorik und Philosophie in hellenistischer Zeit und in Rom 53
  8. 3. Rhetoric and Philosophy in the Middle Ages 81
  9. 4. Rhetorik und Philosophie bei den Renaissancehumanisten 97
  10. 5. Rhetorik und Anti-Rhetorik in der frühneuzeitlichen Philosophie 123
  11. 6. Vico: Rhetorik als Metakritik der neuzeitlichen Erkenntnistheorie 147
  12. 7. Rhetorik und Philosophie bei Kant, im Deutschen Idealismus und in der Romantik 169
  13. 8. Rhetorik und Philosophie in der Frühgeschichte der philosophischen Ästhetik 189
  14. 9. Die Rückkehr der Philosophie zu Rede und Dialog: Vico, Hamann, Herder, Humboldt 217
  15. 10. Nietzsches rhetorische Philosophie der Rhetorik 239
  16. II. Aktualisierungen der Rhetorik im 20. Jahrhundert
  17. 11. Marxism and the Frankfurt School: Rhetoric as Critique 265
  18. 12 Philosophische Hermeneutik: Relektüren der rhetorischen Tradition 281
  19. 13. Pragmatismus und Pragmatik: Rhetorische Spuren in Theorien sprachlichen Handelns 303
  20. 14. Analytische Philosophie: Die andere Seite der Rhetorik 333
  21. 15. Dekonstruktion: Die Rhetorik im philosophischen Text 353
  22. 16. Psychoanalyse: Rhetorik als das Unbewusste der Philosophie 379
  23. 17. Feministische Philosophie und Gendertheorie: Rhetoriken des Körpers 399
  24. 18. Theorien der Metapher: Die Provokation der Philosophie durch das Unbegriffliche 421
  25. III. Philosophische Rhetorik im Kontext
  26. 19. Rhetorik und Argumentation in der Philosophie 451
  27. 20. Rhetorizität und Literarizität der Philosophie 473
  28. 21. Rhetorizität und Medialität 495
  29. 22. Rhetorik, Alterität und Responsivität 513
  30. 23. Rhetorik, Politik und radikale Demokratie 535
  31. 24. Rhetorik, Dissens und Widerstand 563
  32. 25. Rhetorik und Ethik 585
  33. 26. Rhetoric and the Emotions 617
  34. Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger 635
  35. Index 639
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