Schrift, Alan D.  "Language, Metaphor, Rhetoric: Nietzsche's Deconstruction of Epistemology."  Journal of the History of Philosophy 23, no. 3 (July 1985): 371-95.

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“In The Order of Things, Michel Foucault cites Nietzsche’s “radical reflection

upon language” as, in part, initiating the modern epoch.’ While one need
not agree with this characterization of modernity, Foucault’s focusing on
Nietzsche’s reflection on language brings to the fore an important aspect of
Nietzsche’s thought to which, until quite recently, little attention has been
given. While many o f Nietzsche’s commentators have acknowledged his early
work as a professor o f classical philology at the University of Basel (186 9 –
1879) on rhetoric and language, few have related Nietzsche’s early insights
into the nature o f language to the work of his so-called “mature” period. ~”

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