Το πάθος για την αλήθεια

by Friedrich Nietzsche, Βαγγέλης Δουβαλέρης (Translator), Ήρκος Ρ. Αποστολίδης (Editor)

Να κ' η περίπτωση του Ηράκλειτου, που αποτραβήχτηκε στις ελεύθερες εκτάσεις και στα περιστύλια του τεράστιου ναού της Αρτέμιδος: τούτη η "έρημος" ήταν, οπωσδήποτε, πιο άξια - τ' ομολογώ! Γιατί να μην υπάρχουν και για μας τέτοιοι ναοί; (...Χμ, Ίσως και να υπάρχουν. Να, μου έρχεται τώρα δα στο νου τ' ωραιότερο δωμάτιο εργασίας που είχα ποτέ, στην Piazza di San Marco, άνοιξη, δέκα με δώδεκα το πρωί...) Ωστόσο, κι ο Ηράκλειτος απέφευγε αυτό που κ' εμείς αποφεύγουμε σήμερα: το θόρυβο και τη φλυαρία των Εφεσίων, τη δημοκρατία τους, τις πολιτικές αθλιότητές τους, τα νεώτερα κατορθώματα της "αυτοκρατορίας" (της περσικής - με εννοείτε...), όλη τη βρομερή πραμάτεια του "σήμερα",.. γιατί εμείς οι φιλόσοφοι χρειαζόμαστε πάνω απ' όλα μια συγκεκριμένη ησυχία: χρειαζόμαστε ανάπαυση απ' το "σήμερα".

Genres: Philosophy, Literature

96 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2015

About the author

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24, but resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward a complete loss of his mental faculties, with paralysis and probably vascular dementia. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900, after experiencing pneumonia and multiple strokes.
Nietzsche's work spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism, and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favour of perspectivism; a genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality and a related theory of master–slave morality; the aesthetic affirmation of life in response to both the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; the notion of Apollonian and Dionysian forces; and a characterisation of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and his doctrine of eternal return. In his later work, he became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome cultural and moral mores in pursuit of new values and aesthetic health. His body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, music, religion, tragedy, culture, and science, and drew inspiration from Greek tragedy as well as figures such as Zoroaster, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Wagner, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
After his death, Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth became the curator and editor of his manuscripts. She edited his unpublished writings to fit her German ultranationalist ideology, often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. Through her published editions, Nietzsche's work became associated with fascism and Nazism. 20th-century scholars such as Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, and Georges Bataille defended Nietzsche against this interpretation, and corrected editions of his writings were soon made available. Nietzsche's thought enjoyed renewed popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th- and early 21st-century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, music, poetry, politics, and popular culture.

Reviews

[Evripidis Gousiaris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ακόμα δεν έχω ασχοληθεί με τα Μεγάλα του έργα, αλλά από τα Μικρά τείνει να γίνει ένας από τους Αγαπημένους...

[Λευτέρης Πετρής · Rating 5 out of 5]

"ΑΡΑΓΕ Η ΔΟξΑ εἶν᾽ ἁπλῶς ἡ νοστιμώτερη τροϕὴ τῆς ϕιλαυτίας μας; ῎Οχι μόνο· εἶναι πόθος ἄρρηκτα δεμένος μὲ τοὺς πιὸ σπάνιους ἀνθρώπους καὶ τὶς πιὸ σπάνιες στιγμές τους. ᾽Εκεῖνες τὶς στιγμὲς ϕωτίζονται ἄξαϕνα ὅλα· ἁπλώνει ἀγέρωχα τὸ χέρι του κανείς, σὰ νὰ πρόσταζε τὴ δημιουργία ἑνὸς Κόσμου· ϕῶς ἀναδύεται ἀπὸ μέσα του καὶ πλημυρεῖ τὰ πάντα. Τὸν διαθέει τότε ἡ εὐτυχὴς βεβαιότητα ὅτι αὐτὸ ποὺ τὸν ὕψωσε ὣς τὰ οὐράνια καὶ τὸν μάγεψε –ἡ μιὰ ὑψηλὴ τούτη αἴσθηση– δὲν πρέπει νὰ χαθεῖ. Καὶ τώρα καταλαβαίνει πόσο ἀναγκαῖες εἶναι τέτοιες σπάνιες ἐκλάμψεις γιὰ τοὺς μεταγενέστερους, κ᾽ ἔτσι ξυπνᾶ ἐντός του ὁ ὅποιος πόθος δόξας. ᾽Εϕεξῆς καὶ στὸν αἰῶνα τὸν ἅπαντα ἡ ᾽Ανθρωπότητα ὅλη τὸν χρειάζεται."

Φρ. Νιτσε, «Το πάθος για την αλήθεια», εκδ. Gutenberg, 2015
(Πρόλογος-μετφρ.- σχόλια: Βαγγέλης Δουβαλέρης / Φιλολογική επιμέλεια- σχόλια: Ήρκος Ρ. Αποστολίδης)