References, Citations and Abbreviations -- 'As the Spider Spins': Introduction -- I. On Metaphor and the Limits of Language -- "To Speak in Images": The Status of Rhetoric and Metaphor in Nietzsche's New Language -- Knowledge, Truth, and the Thing-in-itself: The Presence of Schopenhauer's Transcendental Idealism in Nietzsche's On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873) -- Physiology and Language in Friedrich Nietzsche: "The Guiding Thread of the Body" -- II. On Language, Emotion, and Morality -- Discovering Moral Aspects of the Philosophical Discourse About Language and Consciousness With Nietzsche, Humboldt, and Levinas -- Vulnerabilities of Agency: Kant and Nietzsche on Political Community -- What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotions. Nietzsche's Critique of Moral Language as the Shaping of a New Ethical Paradigm -- III. On Language, Self-Expression, and Consciousness -- The Absence and the Other. Nietzsche and Derrida Against Husserl -- Drives, Instincts, Language, and Consciousness in Daybreak 119: 'Erleben und Erdichten' -- Consciousness, Communication, and Self-Expression. Towards an Interpretation of Aphorism 354 of Nietzsche's The Gay Science -- The Spinning of Masks. Nietzsche's Praise of Language -- IV. On Language, Self-Expression, and Style -- The Rise and Fall of Zarathustra's Star -- 'And so I Will Tell Myself the Story of my Life'. Nietzsche in His Last Letters (1885-1889) -- Contributors -- Complete Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.