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Nietzsche and the Self-Revelations of a Martyr (Hardcover, New edition)
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Nietzsche and the Self-Revelations of a Martyr (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Treffpunkt Philosophie, 23
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The project examines the reasons for the many philosophical
difficulties, and the failures, that Nietzsche sensed when he had
concluded The Birth of Tragedy. The subsequent philosophical
decision he made, on the way to reconceiving the classical ideas of
tragedy, destiny, and martyrdom, allowed him to begin to conceive
of what he would identify as a thinking devoted to affirmation.
Everything he commits himself to writing after 1872, including the
unpublished notes on myth from the Philosophenbuch, is a response
to the disillusionment of his belief in Dionysos and the false
promise of tragic affirmation. The Greek god had become a problem
and an obstacle. Sustaining him, as a philosophical idea, was going
to prove to be highly mixed; the struggle would become relentless.
The Greek god is, in many ways, impossible to believe in as an
ideal, in antiquity or for the present; and for a specific reason:
the connection between the institution of the Dionysian festival
and the religious ritual of sacrifice could not be ignored by
Nietzsche. His sense of a "Dionysian nausea" has been overlooked.
Tragedy and sacrifice are a binding relation in the Greek polis.
Nietzsche seems to recognize the fact and commits himself to
directly confronting the tragedy/sacrifice relation in all his
subsequent works and with the intent on being a unique, individual
resource for the truth of his self-revelations. He identifies
himself with a new conception of the martyr (the witness) in order
to provide an alternative to the classical martyr as the victim of
violence and death and who, moreover, is executed by the state.
Socrates and Jesus are omni-present for him. Nietzsche presents
himself as new world-historical alternative and the
self-revelations of a witness for the individuals he will often
call (especially in Thus Spoke Zarathustra) his friends and
neighbours and disciples. Is the whole of his philosophical
enterprise successful? Do his self-revelations lead to the creation
of the free spirit and therefore give him some assurance about the
future of his legacy? Or does his commitment to the eternal
recurrence, for example, lead him to a terrible realization? The
study presents the force of Nietzsche's thought as he created the
resources, which he hoped could be effectively transferred to a
reader, to begin to create an affirmative reality he defines from
out of the fullness of the free spirit and the philosopher.
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