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International Nietzsche Studies
Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body
Nietzsche and the philosopy of language have been a well trafficked crossroads for a generation, but almost always as a checkpoint for post-modernism and its critics. This work takes a historical approach to Nietzsche’s work on language, connecting it to his predecessors and contemporaries rather than his successors. Though Nietzsche invited identification with Zarathustra, the solitary wanderer ahead of his time, for most of his career he directly engaged the intellectual currents and scientific debates of his time.
Emden situates Nietzsche’s writings on language and rhetoric within their wider historical context. He demonstrates that Nietzsche is not as radical in his thinking as has been often supposed, and that a number of problems with Nietzsche disappear when Nietzsche’s works are compared to works on the same subjects by writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Further, the relevance of rhetoric and the history of rhetoric to philosophy and the history of philosophy is reasserted, in consonance with Nietzsche’s own statements and practices. Important in this regard are the role of fictions, descriptions, and metaphor.
Emden situates Nietzsche’s writings on language and rhetoric within their wider historical context. He demonstrates that Nietzsche is not as radical in his thinking as has been often supposed, and that a number of problems with Nietzsche disappear when Nietzsche’s works are compared to works on the same subjects by writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Further, the relevance of rhetoric and the history of rhetoric to philosophy and the history of philosophy is reasserted, in consonance with Nietzsche’s own statements and practices. Important in this regard are the role of fictions, descriptions, and metaphor.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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April 26, 2017
I found this book to very valuable in terms of historical reference to Nietzsche and his philosophical explorations. I read this piece in an attempt to research consciousness and try to find a foundation for the style of modernist writers of the early 1900s. This book offers exactly what I hoped to find in terms of how language connects the external world to the internal workings of the mind. It also expands on so many avenues that Nietzsche explored. Having never researched Nietzsche before, this book had a lot of great information that helped explain Nietzsche's work in social and historical terms, as well as comparing his work to others that were publishing similar philosophical studies in the same time period.
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