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Book SynopsisFrom the early 1870s through the 1880s, language, consciousness, and the body stood as cornerstones of the philosophical project that culminated in Nietzsche's anthropology of knowledge. This title argues that they were shaped by his interest in the theory of knowledge, philological scholarship, and contemporary life sciences.
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Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Translations Introduction 1. The Irreducibility of Language: The History of Rhetoric in the Age of Typewriters 2. The Failures of Empiricism: Language, Science, and the Philosophical Tradition 3. What Is a Trope? The Discourse of Metaphor and the Language of the Body 4. The Nervous Systems of Modern Consciousness: Metaphor, Physiology, and Mind 5. Interpretation and Life: Outlines of an Anthropology of Knowledge Notes Select Bibliography 6 Index
