Nietzsche and Metaphor

by Korman, Sarah; Large, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780804721868
• ISBN10: 0804721866
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche.

Author Biography

Sarah Kofman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris I.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	p. vii
Translator's Note	p. xli
Abbreviations	p. xliii
Editions of Nietzsche's Works	p. xliii
Editions of Other Works	p. xlv
Translator's Acknowledgements	p. xlvi
An Unheard-of and Insolent Philosophy	p. 1
Metaphor, Symbol, Metamorphosis	p. 6
Music, the Privileged Art	p. 6
The Strategic Status of Metaphor	p. 13
The Rehabilitation of Metaphor	p. 17
The Pre-Socratic Model	p. 18
The Forgetting of Metaphor	p. 23
The Originary Metaphorical Activity	p. 23
The Artistic Paradigm	p. 27
The Rhetorical Paradigm	p. 32
The Concept	p. 35
Concept and Language	p. 36
Concept and Principle of Reason	p. 37
The Metaphors for Metaphor	p. 40
Genesis of the Concept and Genesis of Justice	p. 42
Forgetting, the Product of a Perspectival Shift	p. 49
The Role of the Priest	p. 51
Morality, the Ally of Logic	p. 56
Metaphorical Architectures	p. 59
Architects' Good and Bad Taste	p. 60
The Beehive	p. 61
The Tower, the Bastion, the Stronghold	p. 64
The Egyptian Pyramid and the Roman Columbarium	p. 66
The Spider	p. 69
Saturnalia	p. 74
Nakedness, Dress	p. 81
Proper, Appropriation, Property	p. 82
History, Etymology, Genealogy	p. 86
The Original Text, Homo Natura	p. 92
Writing, Reading	p. 101
To Have a Thousand Eyes	p. 101
Vertigo	p. 108
Misunderstanding	p. 112
Genealogy, Interpretation, Text	p. 120
Author's Acknowledgements	p. 146
Notes	p. 147
Sarah Kofman: A Complete Bibliography, 1963-1993	p. 191
Index of Nietzsche's Works Cited	p. 208
General Index	p. 214
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