The Beginnings of Nietzsche's Theory of Language

Claudia Crawford

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9783110862522
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

For several decades, Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The book series is international in orientation and reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process.

The series is led by an international team of editors.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Key to Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Theory and Method
• The Beginnings of Nietzsche’s Theory of Language: 1863–1873
• The Texts
• I. Eduard von Hartmann and the Unconscious
• II. Schopenhauer
• III. Kant
• IV. Nietzsche: “The deepest philosophical knowledge lies already prepared in language.”
• V. Schopenhauer and Hartmann: Will, Character, Instinct
• VI. Lange’s: History of Materialism
• VII. “On Schopenhauer”
• VIII. “On Teleology” or “Concerning the Concept of the Organic Since Kant”
• IX. Nietzsche and Hartmann: Unconscious Nature of Language
• X. Hartmann’s Worldview of the Unconscious
• XI. Nietzsche’s Worldview in Anschauung
• XII. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
• XIII. Reconciliation of Materialism and Idealism
• XIV. Nietzsche’s Notes for a Course on “Rhetoric” and “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense”
• Appendix A:
• Notes on Translation
• 1. “On the Origins of Language”
• 2. “On Schopenhauer”
• 3. “On Teleology”
• 4. “Anschauung Notes”
• 5. “Untitled Notes”
• Appendix B:
• 1. Genealogical nodes
• 2. Chronology
• 3. Index of scientific and philosophical names
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names