Contents 5
References, Citations, and Abbreviations 7
Acknowledgements 13
Editors\u2019 Introduction 15
I. Nietzschean Beginnings and Developments 25
\u2018As with Bees?\u2019 Notes on Instinct and Language in Nietzsche and Herder 27
Nietzsche on Metaphor, Musicality, and Style. From Language to the Life of the Drives 59
II. Dissolving an Opposition 85
What Language Do Drives Speak? 87
Instinct and Language in Nietzsche\u2019s Beyond Good and Evil 104
Greed and Love: Genealogy, Dissolution and Therapeutical Effects of a Linguistic Distinction in FW 14 141
III. Instinct, Language, and Philosophy 189
Afternoon Thoughts. Nietzsche and the Dogmatism of Philosophical Writing 191
Fearless Findings. Instinct and Language in Book V of the Gay Science 209
IV. The Critique of Morality and the Affi rmation of Life 225
Philosophy as a \u2018Misunderstanding of the Body\u2019 and the \u2018Great Health\u2019 of the New Philosophers 227
From the Nietzschean Interpretation of Philosophical Language to the Semiotics of Moral Phenomena: Thoughts on Beyond Good and Evil 243
Zarathustra\u2019s Laughter or the Birth of Tragedy from the Experience of the Comic 267
Stammering in a Strange Tongue: The Limits of Language in The Birth of Tragedy in the Light of Nietzsches \u2018Attempt At a Self-Criticism\u2019 283
Contributors 304
Complete Bibliography 305
Name Index 315
Subject Index 316