Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness and Body

Leveraging a truly astounding command of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific and philological texts, Emden is able to situate Nietzsche´s Wriitings on language and rhetoric within their wider historical context, allowing him to distill the content of Nietzsche´s writing from the form of his radical presentation. In the process, Emden reveals Nietzsche as more timely and less outrageous than he is widely thought to be, appearing instead as a powerful thinker interested in understanding the philosophical import of the heady scientific developements of his day. Finally, Emden examines the role of metaphor and interpretation, reasserting the relevance of rhetoric to philosophy, in consonance with Nietzsche´s own statements and practices.