Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 1 25/11/2013 13:30 Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy presents cutting-edge scholarship in all the major areas of research and study. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from a range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Some other titles in the series: Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy, Owen Hulatt Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty, Rajiv Kaushik Between Hegel and Spinoza, edited by Hasana Sharp and Jason E. Smith Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in Kant, Joël Madore Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art, Devin Zane Shaw Hegel’s Rabble, Frank Ruda Kant: The Art of Judgment in Aesthetic Education, Pradeep Dhillon Kant’s Concept of Genius, Paul W. Bruno Kant on Spontaneity, Marco Sgarbi Kierkegaard on Sin and Salvation, W. Glenn Kirkconnell Languages of Intentionality, Paul S. MacDonald Philosophy of Art: The Question of Definition, Tiziana Andina Reconceiving Medical Ethics, edited by Christopher Cowley Re-Thinking the Cogito, Christopher Norris Rousseau and Radical Democracy, Kevin Inston The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction, Jukka Mikkonen The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency, Ayon Maharaj The Science of Right in Leibniz’s Moral and Political Philosophy, Christopher Johns The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, edited by Scott M. Campbell and Paul W. Bruno The Virtue of Feminist Rationality, Deborah K. Heikes The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing, Jon Stewart 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 2 25/11/2013 13:30 Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity Edited by Anthony K. Jensen and Helmut Heit Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 3 25/11/2013 13:30 Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury is a registered trade mark of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2014 © Anthony K. Jensen, Helmut Heit and Contributors 2014 Anthony K. Jensen and Helmut Heit have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Editors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury Academic or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: ePDF: 978-1-4725-1333-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 4 25/11/2013 13:30 “Actually I’d much rather have been a Basel Professor than God.” Letter to Jacob Burckhardt, January 6, 1889 “There are of course also Philologica by me; but that need not concern either of us anymore.” Letter to Georg Brandes, April 10, 1888 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 5 25/11/2013 13:30 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 6 25/11/2013 13:30 Anthony Jensen dedicates this volume to the memory of Robert Rethy and Steven K. Strange Helmut Heit dedicates this volume to Joachim Müller-Warden 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 7 25/11/2013 13:30 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 8 25/11/2013 13:30 Contents Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xii Notes on Contributors xv Introduction xvii Part 1 Nietzsche’s Place in Philology 1 On Nietzsche’s Philolological Beginnings Joachim Latacz 3 2 Nietzsche’s Radical Philology James I. Porter 27 Part 2 Scholarly Processes 3 The Sources of Nietzsche’s Lectures on Rhetoric Glenn W. Most and Thomas Fries 53 4 Apollo and the Problem of the Unity of Culture in the Early Nietzsche Douglas Burnham 75 Part 3 Scholarly Achievement 5 Nietzsche’s Valediction and First Article: The Theognidea Anthony K. Jensen 99 6 Nietzsche and Diogenes Laertius Jonathan Barnes 115 7 Nietzsche’s Influence on Homeric Scholarship Alexey Zhavoronkov 139 Part 4 Literature, Language, Culture 8 The History of Literature as an Issue: Nietzsche’s Attempt to Represent Antiquity Carlotta Santini 159 9 Greek Audience: Performance and Effect of the Different Literary Genres in Nietzsche’s Philologica Vivetta Vivarelli 181 9781472511522_txt_print.indd 9 25/11/2013 13:30
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