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As the Spider Spins : Essays on Nietzsche's Critique and Use of Language.

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, non-metaphysical cobwebs. This book focuses not only on Nietzsche's critique...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Constâncio, João
Otros Autores: Mayer Branco, Maria João
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Nietzsche today (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.