Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

1077 Pages·2020·4.124 MB·English

by  Domenico Losurdo

Nietzsche,theAristocraticRebel
Historical Materialism
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DomenicoLosurdo(14November1941–28June2018)
Courtesy of Federico Losurdo
Nietzsche,
the Aristocratic Rebel
IntellectualBiographyandCriticalBalance-Sheet
By
DomenicoLosurdo
WithanIntroductionby
HarrisonFluss
Translatedby
GregorBenton
LEIDEN | BOSTON
OriginallypublishedinItalianbyBollatiBoringhieriEditoreasDomenicoLosurdo,Nietzsche,ilribelle
aristocratico:Biografiaintellettualeebilanciocritico,Turin,2002.
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Benton,Gregor,translator.
Title:Nietzsche,thearistocraticrebel:intellectualbiographyandcriticalbalance-
sheet/byDomenicoLosurdo;withanintroductionbyHarrisonFluss;
translatedbyGregorBenton.
Othertitles:Nietzsche,ilribellearistocratico.English
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BoringhieriEditoreasDomenicoLosurdo,Nietzsche,ilribellearistocratico:
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∵
Who cannot make demands on him? Tell me what you need and
I will find you a Nietzsche quotation for it […]. For Germany and
against Germany; for peace and against peace; for literature and
againstliterature.
Tucholsky1985,p.14
…
Every author has a sense in which all the contradictory passages
areharmonized,otherwisethatauthorhasnosense[…].Onemust
thereforefindasenseinwhichallthecontradictionsarereconciled.
Pascal1954,af.558
…
Politicsisnowtheorganofthoughtinitstotality.
B,I,2,p.258
…
LessthanevermayweseeinPlatoamereartist.[…]Weerrwhenwe
considerPlatotobearepresentativeoftheGreekartistictype:while
thisabilitywasamongthemorecommon,thespecificallyPlatonic,
i.e.,dialectic-political,wassomethingunique.
KGA,II,4,p.14
…
Onecoulddousnogreaterinjusticethantoassumethatforusit
isamatterof artalone,asif itweretofunctionasamedicineand
narcoticwithwhichwecouldcureourselvesofallothermiserable
conditions.
WB,4,I,451[277–8]
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Contents
IntroductiontotheEnglish-LanguageEdition 1
HarrisonFluss
Part 1
NietzscheinHisTime:InStruggleagainstSocratismand
Judaism
1 TheCrisisofCulturefromSocratestotheParisCommune 19
1 TheBirthofTragedyasaRe-interpretationofHellenism? 19
2 TragicHellenismasAntidoteto‘Weak’Modernity 23
3 TheParisCommuneandtheThreatofa‘HorrifyingDestruction’of
Culture 26
4 TheSuicideofTragicHellenismasMetaphorfortheSuicideofthe
ancienrégime 30
5 FromtheAnti-NapoleonicWarstoTheBirthofTragedy 34
6 TheYoungNietzsche’sAdherencetoGermanNational
Liberalism 38
7 ‘GermanPessimism’,‘SeriousViewoftheWorld’,‘TragicViewof
theWorld’ 39
8 The‘GermanSpirit’as‘Saviour’and‘Redeemer’ofZivilisation 42
9 ‘Optimism’,‘Happiness’andRevolutionaryDrift:Nietzsche’s
Radicalism 45
10 AnAnti-PelagianReconquestofChristianity? 50
11 ChristianityasSubversiveanda‘ReligionoftheLearned’ 53
12 Eva,PersephoneandPrometheus:TheReinterpretationofOriginal
Sin 56
13 ‘GreekSerenity’,‘Sensualism’andSocialism 58
14 TheApolline,theDionysiacandtheSocialQuestion 62
15 AthensandJerusalem;ApolloandJesus,DionysusandApollo 67
16 Art,PoliticsandKulturkritik 71
17 AnAppealfora‘StruggleagainstCivilisation’ 75
18 ManifestoofthePartyoftheTragicViewoftheWorld 78
19 UniversalHistory,UniversalJudgement,DivineJustice,Theodicy,
Cosmodicy 82