How the 'True Friedrich Nietzsche' finally did Become a Fable? The Story of An Error

How the 'True Friedrich Nietzsche' Finally Did Become a Fable?The Story of an Error

byKristóf Fenyvesi

Jyväskylä UniversityDoctoral School of Hungarian Studies

27 May 2010University of Vaasa, Finland

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1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, 1846-1935

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, 1846-1935

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask

Max Klinger

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse

Max Klinger

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse

Max Klinger

The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse

Max Klinger

The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar„I am a Doppelgänger, I have a

'second' face in addition to the first. And perhaps also a third.” Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo manuscript, 1888

Max Klinger

The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar„I am a Doppelgänger, I have a

'second' face in addition to the first. And perhaps also a third.” Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph

2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph

2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph

3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”

3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”

- stimulus detection

3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”

- stimulus detection

- transfigurational activity

3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”

- stimulus detection

- transfigurational activity

„double metaphorization”

3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”

- stimulus detection

- transfigurational activity

„double metaphorization”

Nietzsche signs the Ecce Homo as:

'Dionysus versus the Crucified.'

4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo

4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo 1.

- the new prefaces of the re-edited older works, published between 1886-1887;- Nietzsche's newer works between 1883-1889

4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo 1.

- the new prefaces of the re-edited older works, published between 1886-1887;- Nietzsche's newer works between 1883-1889

2.- Nietzsche's letters written between 1886 and 1889

4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces

4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces

1886-87: second editions, and new prefaces to - The Birth of Tragedy- Human, All-Too-Human- Daybreak- The Gay Science

4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces

1886-87: second editions, and new prefaces to - The Birth of Tragedy- Human, All-Too-Human- Daybreak- The Gay Science

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-85); Beyond Good and Evil (1886); On the Genealogy of Morality (1887); The Case of Wagner (1888); Twilight of the Idols (1888); The Antichrist (1888); Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888)

4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces

...the whole Nietzschean philosophical oeuvre’s narrative structure is established by the Nietzschean inshights represented by the works written between 1886 and 1889.

4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces

...the whole Nietzschean philosophical oeuvre’s narrative structure is established by the Nietzschean inshights represented by the works written between 1886 and 1889.

...only three years’ textual work puts into a narrative frame the whole oeuvre, which was originally created during two decades.

4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces

4.2. Letters to Readers – Letter to a Danish friend

4.2. Letters to Readers – Letter to a Danish friend

Georg Brandes, 1842-1927

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo breaks away from the- Saint Augustinian autobiographical tradition

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo breaks away from the- Saint Augustinian autobiographical tradition- Rousseauean 'apologetical' narrative

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo

- applying the thought of eternal recurrence

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo

- applying the thought of eternal recurrence

- says 'yes' its author's altered past

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather individual errors; the individual itself is an error. […] To stop feeling oneself as such a fantastic ego! To learn gradually to throw away the supposed individual! To discover the errors of the ego! [...] Beyond "me" and "you"! To feel cosmically.' (Nietzsche, 9, 441-2)

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather individual errors; the individual itself is an error. […] To stop feeling oneself as such a fantastic ego! To learn gradually to throw away the supposed individual! To discover the errors of the ego! [...] Beyond "me" and "you"! To feel cosmically.' (Nietzsche, 9, 441-2)

'I am every name in history.'

Nietzsche

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

NarrativeFramework model

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

NarrativeFramework model

NarrativeFramework model

Stack model

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

Nietzsche's double aim:

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later

- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later

- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project

Solution:

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later

- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project

Solution: to build up a new metanarrative

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later

- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project

Solution: to build up a new metanarrative - include subsequently written prefaces into the new editions and modify the earlier texts and their structure

6. The Case of the

Augmented Level:

Nietzsche's Travel to his

Past

Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later

- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project

Solution: to build up a new metanarrative - include subsequently written prefaces into the new editions and modify the earlier texts and their structure

Thank you very much for your attention!

All Nietzsche-montages used in this presentation are from Sándor Vály's (Helsinki) 'After Nietzschean Narratives' series, except on the slides nr. 37-39. which is the work of Giuliano Cocco.

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