Episode
142: Commands, Symbols & Games - Nietzsche, Cassirer & Wittgenstein on Language
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- The Nietzsche Podcast
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- Jun 2, 2026
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Summary
In this episode we're going to explore three very different thinkers who nonetheless converge on their theories of language. We're going to see if we can't extract an intelligible whole out of the ideas generated by this trio: the Nietzschean theory of language as command, the view of Cassirer that man is a symbolic animal, and Wittgenstein's concept of the language-game.