Nietzsche in Turin : an intimate biography

267 Pages·1998·6.89 MB·English

by  Lesley Chamberlain

NIETZSCHE
in Turin
N IE T Z S C H E
in Turin
AN INTIMATE B I O G R A P H Y
L E S L E Y C H A M B E R L A I N
PICADOR USA
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First published in Great Britain by Quartet Books
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Generous assistance towards the making of this
book came from The Authors' Foundation
administered by The Society of Authors. The
Swiss Tourist Office helped the author retrace
Nietzsche's days in Sils Maria.
CONTENTS
NIETZSCHE’S LIFE AND WORKS
A Comparative Chronology ix
PREFACE 3
1 FORTY-THREE YEARS BEHIND
ME AND JUST AS ALONE AS
WHEN A CHILD . . . 11
2 THE BEGINNING OF THE
FUTURE: THE FIRST PLACE
WHERE I AM POSSIBLE 30
3 AN INDESCRIBABLY CLOSE
INTIMACY 46
4 THE SPIRIT OF MUSIC AND
THE MAKING OF NIETZSCHE 57
5 THE FUTURE OF ART: THE CASE
AGAINST WAGNER 68
6 NEW DEPARTURES AND
HIGH MOUNTAINS 86
7 HEREDITY AND BORROWED
TIME 107
8 THE BRAHMIN OF
SUPERABUNDANCE AND THE
MAD PROFESSOR 129
9 ECCE HOMO 157
10 DIONYSUS COMES TO THE
RIVER PO 181
11 COLLAPSE INTO THE BEYOND 198
NOTES 218
NIETZSCHE’S LIFE AND WORKS
A Comparative Chronology
1819 Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
1839 Ludwig Feuerbach, On Philosophy and Christianity
1841 Soren Kierkegaard, The Essence of Christianity and
The Concept of Irony
1844 Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea (2nd
edition)
1844 Birth of Nietzsche
1845-6 Karl Marx, The German Ideology
1847 Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy
1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
1849 Death of Nietzsche’s father, Carl
1859 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
1867 Karl Marx, Das Kapital (vol. 1)
1865 Nietzsche a student in Bonn
1865-6 Nietzsche a student in Leipzig
1867-8 Military service ends with riding accident
1869 Eduard von Hartmann, Philosophy of the Unconscious
1869 Nietzsche appointed Professor of Classical Philology in
Basel
1869-76 Enjoys close friendship with the Wagners
1870 Serves as medical orderly in Franco-Prussian War
1871 First major period of illness
1872 THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY
1873-6 UNTIMELY REFLECTIONS
1876-8 Break with Wagner
1877 HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN
1879 Nietzsche, dogged by ill-health, resigns from Basel
University
1880 First of three winters (1880-83) in Genoa establishes
pattern for an itinerant life, with later winters in Nice
and summers in Swiss Alps
1880 THE WANDERER AND HIS SHADOW
1881 DAYBREAK
1882 THE SCIENCE OF JOY
1882 Nietzsche meets Lou Salome and pursues passionate
friendship
1883 Friedrich Engels, Socialism Utopian and Scientific
1883 Death of Wagner
1883-4 Nietzsche alienated from mother and sister over failed
love for Lou
1883-5 THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
1885 Elisabeth Nietzsche marries Bernhard Forster
1886 BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
1887 THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS
1886 Elisabeth and Forster emigrate to Paraguay
1888 Nietzsche moves from Nice to Turin (April)
1888 THE WAGNER CASE
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS
THE ANTICHRISTIAN
Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and the Outcome of
Classical German Philosophy
1889 ECCE HOMO
NIETZSCHE CONTRA WAGNER
THE DIONYSUS DITHYRAMS
1890 Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
1900 Death of Nietzsche
1904 Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everylay Life
1919 Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism
1930 Sigmund Freud, Civilisation anl its Discontents