Summary of Sue Prideaux's I Am Dynamite!

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#1 On 9 November 1868, Nietzsche wrote to his friend Erwin Rohde about meeting Richard Wagner. He had been invited to attend a meeting of the Classical Society, where he would play the Meisterlied and talk about God in philosophy.
#2 I met Richard Wagner in the Brockhauses’ drawing room. I was introduced to him, and I spoke a few respectful words. He wanted to know details about how I became familiar with his music, and he made fun of the conductors who called their orchestras in a bland voice.
#3 The first link in the chain was forged when Nietzsche heard the preludes to Wagner’s two latest operas, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He set himself to learning the piano arrangements. Next, Ottilie Brockhaus heard him play and relayed the news to her brother Wagner.
#4 Nietzsche was a student at Leipzig University in Germany, studying classical philology, the science of classical languages and linguistics. He was not yet a philosopher, but he had already begun writing about music and art. His ambition had been to become a musician, but he abandoned the idea when he was about eighteen.

Sujets

• Philosophy
• Philosophie et théologie
• Individual Philosophers

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669398004
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Sue Prideaux's I Am Dynamite!
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On 9 November 1868, Nietzsche wrote to his friend Erwin Rohde about meeting Richard Wagner. He had been invited to attend a meeting of the Classical Society, where he would play the Meisterlied and talk about God in philosophy.

#2

I met Richard Wagner in the Brockhauses’ drawing room. I was introduced to him, and I spoke a few respectful words. He wanted to know details about how I became familiar with his music, and he made fun of the conductors who called their orchestras in a bland voice.

#3

The first link in the chain was forged when Nietzsche heard the preludes to Wagner’s two latest operas, Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He set himself to learning the piano arrangements. Next, Ottilie Brockhaus heard him play and relayed the news to her brother Wagner.

#4

Nietzsche was a student at Leipzig University in Germany, studying classical philology, the science of classical languages and linguistics. He was not yet a philosopher, but he had already begun writing about music and art. His ambition had been to become a musician, but he abandoned the idea when he was about eighteen.

#5

Nietzsche was becoming increasingly unhappy as a philologist. He was so good at the moleish pullulating he despised that he was offered the Chair of Classical Philology at Basle University, becoming their youngest ever professor.

#6

The Nietzsche family were modest Saxon folk, butchers and cottagers who made their living in the area around the cathedral town of Naumburg. Karl Ludwig’s father, Friedrich August Nietzsche, moved the family up the social scale on taking Holy Orders and he married a woman with Napoleonic sympathies.

#7

The pastor was both pious and patriotic, but he was not free from the nervous disorders that affected his mother and half-sisters. He would shut himself up in his study for hours, refusing to eat, drink, or talk. His wife, Franziska, was stifled beneath Erdmuthe and the two neurotic aunts.

#8

The death of Nietzsche’s baby brother must be discussed. He suffered from seizures before dying of a terminal stroke. It can be no doubt that the Nietzsche family was affected by a strong tendency to mental or neurological instability.

#9

The family moved to Naumburg, a small town in Germany, to be closer to the Altenburg Court. Franziska had a widow’s pension of ninety thalers a year, plus eight per child. This was not enough for independence.

#10

The Germany of the 1850s was the Germany of the Bund, a confederation of states formed in 1815. The Bund consisted of thirty-nine autonomous German states governed by Princes, Dukes, Bishops, Electors and so on. The city of Naumburg, in the province of Saxony, was governed by the King of Prussia.

#11

The family moved to Naumburg, a city that was becoming increasingly conservative, and Nietzsche began to show his literary talent. He wrote a description of the King’s visit to Naumburg when he was ten years old, and did not show any precocious political thought.

#12

Nietzsche’s mother had taught him to read and write when he was five years old. His precocity, his solemnity, and his precision of thought and utterance placed him firmly outside the pack. He was nicknamed the little Minister.

#13

At the age of nine, Nietzsche was sent to the Dom Gymnasium, a cathedral school. He was not as carefree and wild as children usually are. His schoolmates were accustomed to teasing him on account of his seriousness.

#14

During his four years at the Dom Gymnasium, he distinguished himself in the subjects that interested him: German versification, Hebrew, Latin, and eventually Greek. He had grown so obsessed with the idea of appropriating universal knowledge and capability that he was in danger of becoming a complete muddle-head and fantasist.

#15

Nietzsche was a close friend of the composer Felix Mendelssohn. He was extremely devoted to his mother and sister, and they to him. He was a diligent scholar, and his mother had no doubt he had the capacity to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a priest.

#16

The Christian faith believes that the Holy Trinity consists of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. But twelve-year-old Nietzsche could not stand the irrationality of this construction. His reasoning pushed up a different Holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil.

#17

Nietzsche had a dream in which he saw his father and his son Joseph, who was born in 1848, die at the same time. He wrote about this dream in his autobiography.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When Nietzsche was eleven, his mother was able to set up her own household. He fell into the habit of working till around midnight and getting up at five in the morning to resume. His health was not good, and he suffered from frequent headaches.

#2

Pforta was a Cistercian monastery that had been converted into a Latin school in 1528 by Schwarzerd, who had assisted Luther in translating the Old Testament into German. It was one of the important Latin schools established in 1528 by Schwarzerd.

#3

Von Humboldt’s goal was to create a system of small states that existed diversely and creatively within artistic and intellectual unity. He believed that education should prepare the student for a complete and consistent whole, which combined two German ideals: Wissenschaft and Bildung.

#4

The Rector of Nietzsche’s day described Pforta as a school-state: Athens in the morning, Sparta in the afternoon. It was a semi-monastic, semi-military regime, tough both mentally and physically.

#5

Nietzsche was extremely homesick at first, but he eventually learned to enjoy his time at Pforta. He was a very good student, and he often topped the class at the end of the year.

#6

Nietzsche was not universally popular at school. He was not athletic, unathletic, or particularly skilled in any subject, and he was extremely over-smart. But his friends admired his virtuosity on the piano, and he had a gift for music.

#7

In 1861, Nietzsche wrote a school essay entitled Letter to my friend, in which I recommend to him my favorite poet. The favorite poet was Friedrich Hölderlin, who was then unknown and neglected, though he now sits high in the German pantheon of literature.

#8

Nietzsche was a student at the German school Pforta, and he was not interested in the soul-shaking, godforsaken internal territory that Hölderlin explores. But he did not give up his interest in the poet.

#9

Empedocles was the first philosopher to name the four elements: earth, water, air, and aether. He believed in a universal round of things in which there was no creation or annihilation. He posited a form of matter that was unalterable and eternal due to the mixing and unmixing of the two eternal powers: love and hate.

#10

There is a fragment of Euphorion’s manuscript that should not be omitted from the juvenilia. It is usually regarded as a report on some sort of real experience, a vision or a sinister ghostly visitation, or even a preview of his insanity.

#11

Nietzsche was treated at Pforta for his chronic illness. He was put to bed in a darkened room with leeches fastened to his earlobes to suck blood from his head. He hated the treatment. He was wearing smoked glasses to protect his sensitive eyes from the pain of light.

#12

Nietzsche graduated from high school in 1879, and went on to study at the University of Bonn. He wrote a valedictory comment on Pforta, a school he had attended, that was not flattering at all.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

Nietzsche’s teacher was Professor Koberstein. He was a very strict man, and he did not like the way Nietzsche dressed or his manner of speaking. He did not think that Nietzsche was fit to teach.