Nietzsche’s Journey To Sorrento: Genesis of the Philosophy of the Free Spirit

169 Pages·2016·13.547 MB·English

by  Paolo d’Iorio

Nietzsche’s Journey to Sorrento

Nietzsche’s Journey
to Sorrento
GENESIS OF THE P H I L O S O P H Y
OF THE FREE SPIRIT
Paolo D’lorio
Translated by
Sylvia Mae Gorelick
The University of Chicago Press Chicago ér London
Paolo D’lorio is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and
director of the HyperNietzsche project at the University of Munich. He is the author, editor,
or coeditor of many books. Sylvia Mae Gorelick is a freelance translator and poet.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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DOI: io.72o8/chicago/978o226288659.ooi.oooi
Originally published as Paolo D’ Iorio, Le voyage de Nietzsche à Sorrente
© CRNS Éditions, 2012.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: D’lorio, Paolo, author. | Gorelick, Sylvia Mae, translator.
Title: Nietzsche’s journey to Sorrento : genesis of the philosophy of the free spirit / Paolo
d’lorio; translated by Sylvia Mae Gorelick.
Other titles: Voyage de Nietzsche à Sorrente. English
Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041743 | ISBN 9780226164564 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN
9780226288659 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900—Travel—Italy—Sorrento.
Classification: LCC B3316 .D5613 2016 | DDC 193—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn
.loc.gov/2015041743
© This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
To my grandfather
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(Ischia i g - Versilia ig )

I don’t have enough strength for the North: awkward and artificial souls reign
there, who work as constantly and necessarily at the measures of prudence as
the beaver at his dam. And to think that I spent my whole youth among them!
That is what overcame me when, for the first time, I saw the evening come up,
with its velvet gray and red, in the sky over Naples—like a shudder of pity for
myself, that I had started my life by being old, and tears came to my eyes and
the feeling of having been saved at the last moment.
I have enough spirit for the South.
Friedrich n ie tzsc h e ,posthumous fragment
eKGWB/NF-1881,12 [181] (my translation)

C O N T E N T S
Introduction: Becoming a Philosopher l
Traveling South 6
A Stateless Man’s Passport 9
Night Train through Mont Cenis 12
The Camels of Pisa 19
Naples: First Revelation of the South 21
“The School of Educators” at the Villa Rubinacci 24
Richard Wagner in Sorren to 28
The Monastery of Free Spirits 37
Dreaming of the Dead 44
Walks on the Land of the Sirens 55
The Carnival of Naples 56
Mithras at Capri 5§
Sorrentiner Papiere 64
Rée-alism and the Chemical Combinations of Atoms 68
The Logic of Dreams 73
An Epicurean in Sorrento 75
Sacred Music on an African Background 76
The Sun of Knowledge and the Ground of Things 7§
The Blessed Isles 79
The Bells of Genoa and Nietzschean Epiphanies 89
Epiphanies 96
The Value of Human Things 101
Crossed Geneses 107
x Contents
The Azure Bell of Innocence 112
Zara thustra ’s Night Song 114
Epilogue to the Bell 121
6 Torna a Surriento 123
Notes 127
Editions, Abbreviations, Bibliography 147
Index 155