Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Key to Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Theory and Method -- The Beginnings of Nietzsche's Theory of Language: 1863-1873 -- The Texts -- I. Eduard von Hartmann and the Unconscious -- II. Schopenhauer -- III. Kant -- IV. Nietzsche: "The deepest philosophical knowledge lies already prepared in language." -- V. Schopenhauer and Hartmann: Will, Character, Instinct -- VI. Lange's: History of Materialism -- VII. "On Schopenhauer" -- VIII. "On Teleology" or "Concerning the Concept of the Organic Since Kant" -- IX. Nietzsche and Hartmann: Unconscious Nature of Language -- X. Hartmann's Worldview of the Unconscious -- XI. Nietzsche's Worldview in Anschauung -- XII. Nietzsche and Schopenhauer -- XIII. Reconciliation of Materialism and Idealism -- XIV. Nietzsche's Notes for a Course on "Rhetoric" and "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense" -- Appendix A: -- Notes on Translation -- 1. "On the Origins of Language" -- 2. "On Schopenhauer" -- 3. "On Teleology" -- 4. "Anschauung Notes" -- 5. "Untitled Notes" -- Appendix B: -- 1. Genealogical nodes -- 2. Chronology -- 3. Index of scientific and philosophical names -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.