Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation by Schrift Alan

Author:Schrift, Alan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317857235
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

From his views of language as providing no information about things as they are in themselves, and of truth as forgotten, congealed metaphors, Nietzsche argues that questions of epistemology are more appropriately seen as questions of rhetoric. Inasmuch as epistemology (and philosophy in general) proceeds by means of language, and language is essentially rhetorical (persuasive, seductive), all questions regarding language and, ipso facto, regarding philosophy are questions of rhetoric. Nietzsche asserts that “the deepest philosophical knowledge lies ready-made in language” (MA, V, p. 467, from a fragment entitled “On the Origin of Languageℍ) and concludes that “words are the seducers of philosophers: they struggle in the nets of language” (KGW, IV, 1: 6[39]; SSW, 199). This ready-made knowledge which lies in language never captures the “full essence of things.” Rather,

with respect to their meanings, all words are in themselves and from the beginning tropes. Instead of that which truly takes place, they present a sound image, which fades away in time: language never expresses something completely, but displays only a feature which appears outstanding to it. (Rh, p. 299; ET, p. 23; see also KGW, III, 3: 8[72])

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