By Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Emden, Christian; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
From the early 1870s throughout the Eighties, language, attention, and the physique stood as cornerstones of the philosophical undertaking that culminated in Nietzsche's "anthropology of knowledge". announcing either the timeliness and lasting worth of Nietzsche's writings in this interval, Emden argues that they weren't in response to a selected realizing of the philosophy of language or a particular notion of fact yet have been as a substitute formed by means of his curiosity within the conception of data, philological scholarship, and modern lifestyles sciences. Leveraging a very amazing command of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medical and philological texts, Emden is ready to situate Nietzsche's writings on language and rhetoric inside of their wider old context, permitting him to distill the content material of Nietzsche's writing from the shape of his radical presentation. within the approach, Emden finds Nietzsche as extra well timed and not more outrageous than he's extensively regarded as, showing as a substitute as a robust philosopher attracted to knowing the philosophical import of the heady clinical advancements of his day. eventually, drawing on a lot formerly unpublished and undiscussed Nietzsche fabric, Emden examines the function of metaphor and interpretation, reasserting the relevance of rhetoric to philosophy, in consonance with Nietzsche's personal statements and practices. Christian J. Emden is an assistant professor of German stories at Rice collage. it is a quantity within the "International Nietzsche reviews" sequence, edited by means of Richard Schacht
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180), speculated that his use of this typewriter would undoubtedly aid him in the speedy completion of his next philosophical treatise, but the reality was clearly different. 53 On one of these pages, which are marred by typographical errors throughout, the machine must have become stuck: the first line reads “MELSDNDRGILSTHCZMQNMOY,” The Irreducibility of Language 29 with several other letters superimposed (S 89). For Nietzsche, the typewriter was more difficult than the piano, and long sentences were not much of an option (KGB III/1, p.
The guidance of souls through rhetoric becomes an instrument of power (KGW II/4, pp. 36 In summary, then, Nietzsche criticizes Plato’s rejection of rhetoric on the grounds that Plato himself ranks among the greatest rhetoricians and that Platonic dialectics is heavily marked by the background of Greek rhetorical education (KGW II/5, pp. 195, 198, 308–9). 37 Moreover, Nietzsche uses this point to highlight the shortcomings of Platonic philosophy in general, and in both his introductory course on Plato and his voluminous lectures on the history of ancient Greek literature, he concludes that Plato’s eloquence does not support his dialectical argument and that his rhetorical strategies undermine his philosophical claims: in the end, the main problems with which Plato deals are left unresolved, and his argument often yields no results (KGW II/4, p.
5 (KGB III/1, p. 216; KGB III/5, p. 60 Either way, considering the enormous gap between the oral performance of rhetoric in ancient Greece that Nietzsche describes in his lectures and his own experiments with the typewriter, it is difficult to ignore that language itself had undergone radical transformations. Given all this, we might even argue that the epistemological skepticism Nietzsche increasingly derived from his historical account of the relationship between rhetoric and philosophy in Greek antiquity mirrors the complex transitions of his own intellectual and cultural environment—it began with the failures of empiricism.