After metaphysics: Nietzsche and the language of philosophy

Nietzsche's project of reform in philosophy intended not so much new revision of traditional content of metaphysics, as transformation the philosophy as the very genre. In case of research into post-metaphysical ideas of Nietzsche's philosophy we have to consider him as the prophet of the new philosophy, ignoring his critics of the philosophy's claims on priest's know-all. The author advances the idea, that Nietzsche's style of philosophical writing has features of post-metaphysics, rather than philosophical content.Nietzsche's aphoristic writing has features of plurality, withstood dogmatism, not avoided contradictions and divided sight in interpretative perspectives. Nietzsche's text is heterogeneous in principal, conflicting and mixing not only different senses, but also different styles, irredundant to integrated synthesis. Just in such writing the deconstruction of basic notions of metaphysics (such as ego, substance, cause and effect and so on) takes place. In consideration of difficulty of intention and style of Nietzsche's text, it is necessarily to produce strategies of special reading in the gap between senses and styles of thinking. From P. de Mann's point of view, a systematical critic of main metaphysical notions has necessarily to correlate with his rhetoric. Nietzsche treats tropes not as ornament or figural meaning; tropes are not "supplement" to the literal meaning, but necessary and unavoidable mean of thought expression. We can say that Nietzsche treats a language as a place of truth, not as unconcealing, but as illusion-veils. A style is acceptance of conditionality and illusoriness of the language, using it for creating one's own mirages. Believe in the existence of literal sense, free of rhetorical ambiguity is illusion. Thus philosophy becomes metaphysics not when it uses metaphors, but when it forgives its metaphorical base. Nietzsche's discourse uses itself criticized "metaphors" of metaphysics. If we apply Nietzsche's logic of critics of metaphysics to his own discourse, we have to treat his very text as determined rhetorically. Dissonance of thematic and rhetoric reading prevents the reader from the complacency of metaphysical reading of the irredundant to a set of theses text. Thus we can conclude that post-metaphysical thinking is not extermination of metaphysics in all its forms (such negativism is one more manifestation of metaphysical dogmatism). Post-metaphysical nature of Nietzsche's thinking declares itself not only in the sense of statements, but in dis-tanz between the sense and rhetoric, in mixing of styles, perspectives, voices and interpretations.

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