Abstract:
The purpose of this study is the explanation of the philosophy of language that Nietzsche presents in his first works, mainly in his decisive posthumous writing from 1873. Three aspects of Nietzsche's trajectory are taken into consideration. His interest for the poetical and musical language, since his youth; his education in classical philology; his philosophical investigations about the subject. We intend to show, in that period, the transition from a metaphysical conception to a linguistic view. Nietzsche departs from a metaphysical foundation to a view of the language as the relation between signs and symbols.
Keywords:
language ; concept ; symbol ; music; metaphor