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Nietzsche Paradox and Rogério Miranda de Almeida Translated by Mark S. Roberts Nietzsche and Paradox Nietzsche and Paradox Rogério Miranda de Almeida Translated by Mark S. Roberts State University of New York Press Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2006 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Nopart of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address State University of New York Press, 194 Washington Avenue, Suite 305, Albany, NY 12210-2384 Production by Michael Haggett Marketing by Susan M. Petrie Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Almeida, Rogério Miranda de. [Nietzshe et le paradoxe. English] Nietzsche and paradox / Rogerio Miranda de Almeida ; translated by MarkS. Roberts. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6889-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7914-6889-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900. I. Title. B3317.A42613 2006 193—dc22 2005037170 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Mazrcelo Fabri, Moacir Bandin and Germano Rigacci, Jr. Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii 1 The Birth of Tragedy 1 Apollo and Dionysus 3 Justification by Aesthetics and the Question of Nature 10 Socrates, Tragedy, Science 16 Nihilism, Ressentiment, “Great Pan Is Dead” 23 What Wills The Birth of Tragedy? 29 2 The Interval: Human, All Too Human 33 The World as Representation and Error 36 Science, Art, Religion 44 The Relation of Forces, The Will to Power, Morality 53 “Descent into Hades” 63 3 Thought and Writing as Artifice 67 Of Style and Masks 70 Suffering, Writing, Transfigurations 84 The Eternal Return, Will to Power, Amor Fati 92 4 Nietzsche and Christianity 103 St. Paul, the Jewish Pascal 105 Such People, Such Gods 111 vii viii Nietzsche and Paradox Providence, Beautiful Chaos and Sublime Chance 117 “We Godless Others” 121 “Who Are We Anyway?” 127 5 Morality Exceeded by Morality 131 “We the Good” 134 Guilt and Bad Conscience 141 Ascetic Ideals 146 Zarathustra, Moralist 155 6 Beyond Good and Evil 159 Of Reading and Rewriting 161 The True, the False, Appearances 169 “In the Horizon of the Infinite” 181 Notes 189 Index 217 Preface These reflections are not intended to present an explication, still less a synthesis of Nietzsche’s philosophy. Given the extremely fragmentary and diffuse character of his thought, such an undertaking would be doomed to fail from the very outset. Our proposal here is, rather, to focus on para- dox, or the paradoxes that Nietzsche expresses through his writing, and thus through the great diversity of perspectives and rereadings operative in the domains of art, science, religion, morality, philosophy, and culture in general. If one conceives, as we do, the Nietzschean text as divergent and as what resists or escapes the order of discourse as such, it would be a mis- take to seek a ground or a model that guarantees and explicates the plu- rality of meanings that engender the unfolding of his writing. In other words, Nietzschean thought discloses itself only to the extent that, para- doxically, it is masked, reread, reiterated, and stripped of all constraint, all mastery and interpretation. Tobe sure, the traditional commentators on Nietzsche are unanimous in admitting that his oeuvre contains “contradictions” and ambiguities. But these contradictions invoke, as often as not, “apparent contradictions” in the sense that they would be—unknown to Nietzsche himself—a logi- cal thread carrying these texts to a coherent and continuous whole. Among these authors are Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidgegger, Walter Kaufmann, Jean Wahl, and, more recently, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter. In his book, Nietzsche: His Philosophy of Contradictions and Contradictions of His Philosophy (first German edition, 1971), Müller-Lauter sees in the Will to Power the con- cept by which all Nietzsche’s contradictions would be explained. Yet our purpose is not, at least not primarily, to establish a confrontation between Nietzsche’s writings and his commentators. As a matter of fact, the principal themes of the Nietzschean oeuvre that we develop—that is, the will to power, the relation of forces, ix
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