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Nietzsche's metaphor of the spider that spins its cobweb expresses his critique of the metaphysical use of language - however it additionally means that ‟we, spiders‟, may be able to spin diverse, life-affirming, fitter, non-metaphysical cobwebs. This ebook is a set of 12 essays that attention not just on Nietzsche's critique of the metaphysical assumptions of language, but in addition on his attempt to exploit language otherwise, i.e., to create a ‟new language‟. it's from this standpoint that the booklet considers such topics as attention, the self, metaphor, intuition, affectivity, variety, morality, fact, and information. The authors invited to give a contribution to this quantity are Nietzsche students who belong to a couple of crucial examine facilities of the eu Nietzsche-Research: Centro Colli-Montinari (Italy), GIRN (Europhilosphie), SEDEN (Spain), Greifswald learn staff (Germany), NIL (Portugal). In 2011 João Constâncio and Maria João Mayer Branco edited Nietzsche on intuition and Language, additionally released via Walter de Gruyter. the 2 books supplement one another.
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426). “The History of Greek Eloquence”, p. 213 (“Geschichte der griechischen Beredsamkeit”, KGW II/4, p. 371). “To Speak in Images” 21 From this perspective we can now understand that language is never neutral, because it is originally understood as a “force”, as a “power”. A particular language entails the practical rather than theoretical power of inducing ways of thinking, values, and hence, of inducing specific modes of life. The unity of a word, for instance, leads us to believe in the reality and unity of the “thing” it is supposed to designate.
To Speak in Images” 29 “there is as little distinction between actual words and tropes as there is between straightforward speech and so-called rhetorical figures”:48 […] all words are tropes in themselves, and from the beginning. […] In sum: the tropes are not just occasionally added to words but constitute their most proper nature. It makes no sense to speak of a ‘proper’ meaning which is carried over to something else only in special cases. 49 Recalling the principal tropes we are used to distinguish, Nietzsche defines metaphor in the following terms: The second form of the tropus is metaphor.
Of the totality which is at the basis of all image or interpretation of the world – and of man himself. 59 But why does Nietzsche, nevertheless, choose to make such a new and – from so many viewpoints – strange use of the term “metaphor”? Without any doubt, his lectures on rhetoric provide evidence that there is a text that constitutes an important source for him in this respect. 60 But recalling this possible source does not explain, however, why Nietzsche chose to adopt this singular use of the term and what this may mean.
As the Spider Spins: Essays on Nietzsche's Critique and Use of Language (Nietzche Today)
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