Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nihilism, and Arbitrariness

This is a brief note criticising some anti-foundationalist and anti-essentialist semiotic assumptions in Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, from the standpoint of a classical structuralist perspective which (following Saussure) sees the play of differences as crucially constitutive of a system of positive terms.

Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nihilism, and Arbitrariness

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M62P11

Author(s):

José Angel García Landa (see profile)

Date:

2004

Group(s):

Linguistics, Narrative theory and Narratology, Philosophy

Subject(s):

Philosophy of language, Linguistics, Semiotics, Structuralism

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Arbitrariness

Notes:

Written 1989.

_____. "Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nihilism, and Arbitrariness." (Typescript, Brown University, 1989). Online edition at Net Sight de José Angel García Landa (2004):

http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/nihilism.html

2013

_____. "Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nihilism, and Arbitrariness." Academia 4 Dec. 2014.*

https://www.academia.edu/9625553/

2014

_____. "Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nihilism, and Arbitrariness." ResearchGate 22 May 2015.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277014095

         2015

_____. "Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Nihilism, and Arbitrariness." Humanities Commons 27 Feb. 2018.*

         https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18381/         

         http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M62P11

         2018

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