NIETZSCHE AND METAPHOR

Sarah Kofman

Stanford University Press - 1993 - 239 págs.

“This long-overdue translation brings to the English-speaking world the work that set the tone for the post-structuralist reading od Nietzsche. The issue of style, of why Nietzsche wrote as he did, is fundamental, on any level, to reading his texts. Some Nietzsche critics (in particular, those, such as Jean Granier, indebted to Heidegger’s reading), in effect translated Nietzsche’s terms back into those of a philosophy of ontology. This book (which includes an appendix specifically directed against the ‘Heideggerian’ reading) shows how such an approach fails to interrogate the precise terms, such as ‘Nature’ or ‘life’, that Nietzsche used in place of ‘being’, and to ask the meaning of this substitution. Dealing with all of Nietzsche’s work, this book shows how he came to arrive at that position, and that to shift the question from ontology to psychology involves an important shift in the status of metaphor. The author begins with the privilege accorded to music and sound in Nietzsche’s thought, to tone as an echo of the universal human pleasure and pain that serves as a foundation to all language. The Birth do Tragedy establishes a hierarchy between the different symbolic languages, wich are metaphorical transpositions of the ‘music’ of the world, itself the most appropriate representation of the innermost essence of things.” CONTENTS Translator’s Introduction Translator’s Note Abbreviations 1. Editions of Nietzsche’ Works 2. Editions of Other Works Translator’s Acknowledgements I. An Unheard-of and Insolent Philosophy II. Metaphor, Symbol, Metamorphosis 1. Music, the Privileged Art 2. The Strategic Status of Metaphor 3. The Rehabilitation of Metaphor 4. The Pre-Socratic Model III. The Forgetting of Metaphor 1. The Originary Metaphorical Activity 2. The Artistic Paradigm 3. The Rhetorical Paradigm 4. The Concept A) Concept and Language B) Concept and Principle of Reason 5. The Metaphors for Metaphor 6. Genesis of the Concept and Genesis of Justice 7. Forgetting, the Product of a Perspectival Shift 8. The Role of the Priest 9. Morality, the Ally of Logic IV. Metaphorical Architectures 1. Architects’ Good and Bad Taste A) The Beehive B) The Tower, the Bastion, the Stronghold C) The Egyptian Pyramid and the Roman Columbarium D) The Spider 2. Saturnalia V. Nakedness, Dress 1. Proper, Apprpriation, Property 2. History, Etymology, Genealogy 3. The Original Text, Homo Natura VI. Writing, Reading 1. To Have a Thousand Eyes 2. Vertigo 3. Misunderstanding Appendix: Genealogy, Interpretation, Text Author’s Acknowledgements Notes Sarah Kofman: A Complete Bibliography, 1963-1993 Index of Nietzsche’s Works Cited General Index

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