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A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche Life and Works Paul Bishop Edited by A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd ii 44//3300//22001122 55::3311::2288 PPMM Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture Camden House Companion Volumes The Camden House Companions provide well-informed and up-to-date critical commentary on the most significant aspects of major works, periods, or literary figures. The Companions may be read profitably by the reader with a general interest in the subject. For the benefit of student and scholar, quotations are provided in the original language. BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd iiii 44//3300//22001122 55::3322::2266 PPMM A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche Life and Works Edited by Paul Bishop Rochester, New York BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd iiiiii 44//3300//22001122 55::3322::2277 PPMM Copyright © 2012 by the Editor and Contributors All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2012 by Camden House Camden House is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.camden-house.com and of Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-57113-327-4 ISBN-10: 1-57113-327-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to Friedrich Nietzsche : life and works / edited by Paul Bishop. p. cm. — (Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57113-327-4 (hardcover : a lk. paper) — ISBN 1-57113-327-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900. 2. Philosophers—Germany— Biography. I. Bishop, Paul, 1967– II. Title. B3316.C645 2012 193—dc23 [B] 2012001488 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Simultaneously printed in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd iivv 44//3300//22001122 55::3322::2277 PPMM Ein neues Mittelalter nun grade befürchte ich nicht [. . .] aber eine immer ödere, immer frechere “Jetztzeit” [. . .] in entset- zlichster Steigerung: Zweckmäßigkeit überall und ein völliges Abdorren aller tiefsten Kräfte, aller künstlerischen, schaffenden Fähigkeit. [I do not fear a new Middle Ages, but an ever drearier, ever more impertinent “Today,” forever surpassing itself in awfulness: rank utilitarianism everywhere, and a complete withering away of all the most profound powers, of every artistic, creative capacity.] — Erwin Rohde to Nietzsche, 11 December 1870; KGB II.2, 280 Es ist ein ganz radikales Wahrheitswesen hier [auf der Universität] nicht möglich. Insbesondre wird etwas wahrhaft Umwälzendes von hier auch nicht seinen Ausgang nehmen können. [To lead a life dedicated radically to truth is here [at the univer- sity] simply not possible. In particular, nothing truly revolution- ary will be able to find a starting-point here.] — Nietzsche to Rohde, 15 December 1870; KSB 3, 165 Jetzt, wo ich [dies kleine Buch] kennen lerne — denn bei seiner Entstehung fehlt mir dazu die Zeit, und inzwischen war ich krank — erschüttert es mich durch und durch und ich bin nach jeder Seite in Thränen. [Now that I am getting to know this small book — while it was being written I didn’t have the time, and then I was ill — I am completely shaken by it, and after every page I am in tears.] — Nietzsche to Karl Hillebrand on Ecce Homo, 24 May 1883; KSB 6, 380 BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd vv 44//3300//22001122 55::3322::2277 PPMM BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd vvii 44//3300//22001122 55::3322::2277 PPMM Contents Acknowledgments ix A Note on Editions and Abbreviations x Introduction 1 Paul Bishop Link to Nietzsche’s Early Writings 13 1: Nietzsche’s Early Writings 24 Thomas H. Brobjer Link to The Birth of Tragedy 49 2: The Birth of Tragedy 54 Adrian Del Caro Link to Untimely Meditations 81 3: Untimely Meditations 86 Duncan Large Link to Human, All Too Human 109 4: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits 114 Ruth Abbey Link to Daybreak 135 5: Daybreak 139 Rebecca Bamford Link to The Gay Science 159 6: The Gay Science 167 Keith Ansell-Pearson Link to Zarathustra 193 7: Thus Spoke Zarathustra 201 Laurence Lampert BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd vviiii 66//55//22001122 55::5544::4455 PPMM viii CONTENTS Link to Beyond Good and Evil 227 8: Beyond Good and Evil 232 Martine Prange Link to On the Genealogy of Morals 251 9: On the Genealogy of Morals 255 Michael Allen Gillespie and Keegan F. Callanan Link to The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner 279 10: The Case of Wagner and Nietzsche contra Wagner 285 Daniel W. Conway Link to Twilight of the Idols, The Anti-Christ, and Ecce Homo 309 11: Twilight of the Idols 315 Carol Diethe 12: The Anti-Christ 339 Martin Liebscher 13: Ecce Homo 361 Paul Bishop 14: Dithyrambs of Dionysos 391 Paul Bishop Link to the Nachlass 399 15: Nietzsche’s Nachlass 405 Alan D. Schrift Conclusion 429 Notes on the Contributors 431 Index 435 BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd vviiiiii 44//3300//22001122 55::3322::2288 PPMM Acknowledgments MY CHIEF DEBT IS TO THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME, with whom it has been a pleasure to work. Some of them I knew before this project began, others I have only learnt to know through correspondence with them, and I am very grateful to them all. In particular, I am espe- cially indebted to Keith Ansell-Pearson and Daniel Conway for support- ing and joining this project at a critical juncture. I also owe an immense debt of thanks to Jim Walker of Camden House for his enthusiasm and encouragement from the initial proposal stage through to completion. Following longstanding complaints to his family and friends about the cold, at the instigation of his mother (KGB III.6, 10–11), albeit after initial reluctance (KSB 8, 10), but following positive experiences in Nice (KSB 8, 201–2 and 216–17) and negotiations about costs with the manufacturer (KSB 8, 455 and 459–60), in the winter of 1888 Nietzsche ordered a small, portable, domestic stove from a company in Dresden called Nieske. The stove burned special logs, made of carbon- nitron, which ensured a smokeless source of heat (KSB 8, 461 and 469). Nietzsche was concerned with safety issues (KSB 8, 489) but set a good deal of store by the stove’s reputation (KSB 8, 523); in the end, however, its arrival coincided with the run-up to his mental collapse. Did Nietzsche ever get to use his stove? According to various sources, he gave it to the Finos, his landlord and landlady in Turin; and thereafter, in the psychiatric clinics in Basel and Jena, and then under the care of his mother, then his sister, in Naumburg, then Weimar, Nietzsche had other problems — or none at all. Thanks to my work on installing a stove as part of renovations on our home during work on this Companion, I first noticed this motif in Nietzsche’s correspondence, and it prompts me to dedicate this vol- ume to my partner, Helen — a true source of warmth in this (sometimes, cold) world. BBiisshhoopp..iinndddd iixx 44//3300//22001122 55::3322::2288 PPMM
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