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Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics
Nietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines—philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology—and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors—Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselves—take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought.
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248 pages, Hardcover
First published October 18, 1988
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December 20, 2020
INTRODUCTION
To be born posthumously. Nietzsche misused as spiritual father of Nazism. Nietzsche describes a fundamentally contradictory and chaotic world...don’t go to this book seeking comfort (can I handle this?). Part of me feels all these scholars are just guessing. Metaphysical? How philosophy relieves suffering vs how poetry relieves suffering. No attempt to find a final solution.
“God is dead. God remains dead.” (V 2, 159) was he once alive to Nietzsche?
Philosophy (logic/reason/apparent world) creates a “life devoid of all depths and heights.”
Nihilism - the rejection of all moral and religious principles, the belief that life is meaningless.
Magnus Opus - most important work of a writer/artist
BEYOND PHILOSOPHY ANS POETRY: SAILING A SUNLESS SEA
Demands “postmodern” (a monster of courage and curiosity) readers (are you allowed to demand who your readers are?). Philosophy is born of a sense of homelessness/what is a man’s place? The refusal of satisfaction. Cast into a world we have not chosen, vulnerable, mortal - it’s difficult to accept ourselves as we are. Sick with revenge. Desire for knowledge = (traditionally) need for security. Descend into the labyrinth, even if such descent threatens destruction/go to the open sea, even if such seafaring must end in shipwreck (the soul). Don’t refuse the abysmal depth of reality. More lured by the depth of the sea than the promise of new land (seafarer).
IRONY AND AFFIRMATION IN NIETZSCHE’S THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
Nietzsche’s magnum opus? The Übermensch. How to read Zarathustra. Audience. Isolation. False enlightenment. Abysmal thought. Collective self-transformation of man (great hope of Zarathustra/who are you to decide how someone should change?). Unresolved.
bleh chapter^
COMMENTARY
Text of metaphysics. It cannot be read in terms of truth or falsehood (some written concepts have their own legitimacy). Philosophy discourse always remains incomplete. Sometimes by giving something a name (I.e. metaphysics discourse), you limit its meaning. Aufheben...what die sit say about humans that we create words with contradictory meanings. Plural space of interpretation. “Depth” sucks. Can human accept the possibility that there are infinite interpretations?
Commentary - explicit and implicit game whose goal is to liberate the meaningful “contents”
THE FORM-CONTENT PROBLEM IN NIETZSCHE’S CONCEPTION OF MUSIC
Not a “free” artist...feels he needs to obey syntax to create music and the obligation limits him. Nietzsche was deeply musical. The two great European narcotics - alcohol and Christianity. What is music’s purpose? Trying hard not to be a Romantic (ha). Current art is trying to reach a complete absence of content.
NIETZSCHE’S MUSICAL POLITICS
Harbinger of a higher humanity. To Nietzsche, philosophy ends in the abyss nihilism...abandon philosophy to escape the abyss. Works of madness. How One Philisophizes with a Hammer. Smashing idols with hammer (image of power) to realize they are hollow (reveals their emptiness). Idleness is the beginning of all philosophy (Aristotle). Unexamined life is not worth living (Aristotle). Happiness has its origin in instinct not reason? New tragic age. Nature is essentially chaotic...art must not imitate it but instead give it order. Ascending (passionate) life vs. descending (reasonable) life.
Aphorism - a concise observation that contains a general truth, typically by an ancient classical author
Nietzsche = big big big misogynist/oversensitive moralist (truest passion is shame and suffering through a shame)
The eternally self-creating, the eternally self-destroying
Is Nietzsche a thinker or a poet (unanswered)
How can one proclaim the innocence of a child as the goal?
To be born posthumously. Nietzsche misused as spiritual father of Nazism. Nietzsche describes a fundamentally contradictory and chaotic world...don’t go to this book seeking comfort (can I handle this?). Part of me feels all these scholars are just guessing. Metaphysical? How philosophy relieves suffering vs how poetry relieves suffering. No attempt to find a final solution.
“God is dead. God remains dead.” (V 2, 159) was he once alive to Nietzsche?
Philosophy (logic/reason/apparent world) creates a “life devoid of all depths and heights.”
Nihilism - the rejection of all moral and religious principles, the belief that life is meaningless.
Magnus Opus - most important work of a writer/artist
BEYOND PHILOSOPHY ANS POETRY: SAILING A SUNLESS SEA
Demands “postmodern” (a monster of courage and curiosity) readers (are you allowed to demand who your readers are?). Philosophy is born of a sense of homelessness/what is a man’s place? The refusal of satisfaction. Cast into a world we have not chosen, vulnerable, mortal - it’s difficult to accept ourselves as we are. Sick with revenge. Desire for knowledge = (traditionally) need for security. Descend into the labyrinth, even if such descent threatens destruction/go to the open sea, even if such seafaring must end in shipwreck (the soul). Don’t refuse the abysmal depth of reality. More lured by the depth of the sea than the promise of new land (seafarer).
IRONY AND AFFIRMATION IN NIETZSCHE’S THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA
Nietzsche’s magnum opus? The Übermensch. How to read Zarathustra. Audience. Isolation. False enlightenment. Abysmal thought. Collective self-transformation of man (great hope of Zarathustra/who are you to decide how someone should change?). Unresolved.
bleh chapter^
COMMENTARY
Text of metaphysics. It cannot be read in terms of truth or falsehood (some written concepts have their own legitimacy). Philosophy discourse always remains incomplete. Sometimes by giving something a name (I.e. metaphysics discourse), you limit its meaning. Aufheben...what die sit say about humans that we create words with contradictory meanings. Plural space of interpretation. “Depth” sucks. Can human accept the possibility that there are infinite interpretations?
Commentary - explicit and implicit game whose goal is to liberate the meaningful “contents”
THE FORM-CONTENT PROBLEM IN NIETZSCHE’S CONCEPTION OF MUSIC
Not a “free” artist...feels he needs to obey syntax to create music and the obligation limits him. Nietzsche was deeply musical. The two great European narcotics - alcohol and Christianity. What is music’s purpose? Trying hard not to be a Romantic (ha). Current art is trying to reach a complete absence of content.
NIETZSCHE’S MUSICAL POLITICS
Harbinger of a higher humanity. To Nietzsche, philosophy ends in the abyss nihilism...abandon philosophy to escape the abyss. Works of madness. How One Philisophizes with a Hammer. Smashing idols with hammer (image of power) to realize they are hollow (reveals their emptiness). Idleness is the beginning of all philosophy (Aristotle). Unexamined life is not worth living (Aristotle). Happiness has its origin in instinct not reason? New tragic age. Nature is essentially chaotic...art must not imitate it but instead give it order. Ascending (passionate) life vs. descending (reasonable) life.
Aphorism - a concise observation that contains a general truth, typically by an ancient classical author
Nietzsche = big big big misogynist/oversensitive moralist (truest passion is shame and suffering through a shame)
The eternally self-creating, the eternally self-destroying
Is Nietzsche a thinker or a poet (unanswered)
How can one proclaim the innocence of a child as the goal?
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