Nietzsche's Voices

John Sallis

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Nietzsche's Voices, a much-anticipated volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis, presents his two-semester lecture course on Nietzsche offered in the Philosophy Department of Duquesne University during the school year 1971–72.

"Nietzsche is easy to read; his is apparently the easiest of all the great philosophies. Yet the easy intelligibility is deceptive. Nietzsche's writings make us believe we have understood when in fact we have not. His philosophy is actually the exact opposite of easy," says Sallis. With this warning always in mind, Sallis first discusses Nietzsche's life and the relevance of the ancient Greeks to his thought and then analyzes Nietzsche's views on truth, history, morality, and the death of God. The entire second half of the book is devoted to Nietzsche's main work, the tragic, comedic, poetic Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Nietzsche's Voices offers a sensitive and brilliant introduction to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, as presented by one of today's most significant philosophers.

Key to the citations of Nietzsche's works
1. Introduction
2. Nietzsche's life
3. The Greeks
4. Truth
5. History
6. Morality
7. The death of God
8. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Editor's Afterword
Index

Sujets

• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• The Birth of Tragedy
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• General officer
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 17 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253063625
• Langue: English

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THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF JOHN SALLIS
Volume III/7

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2022 by John Sallis
Based on a lecture course of 1971-72
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In any case what spoke here-which was admitted with as much curiosity as antipathy-was a strange voice. . . . What spoke here-as was said with suspicion-was something like a mystical and almost maenadic soul that stammered with difficulty and randomly, as in a strange tongue, almost undecided whether it should communicate or conceal itself. It should have sung , this new soul -and not spoken!
-Nietzsche, Attempt at a Self-Criticism, added to The Birth of Tragedy in 1886
Contents
Key to the citations of Nietzsche s works
I. Introduction
II. Nietzsche s life
A. Life in relation to thought.
B. Boyhood.
C. University student years.
D. The Basel period.
E. Last years.
F. Behold the man.
III. The Greeks
A. The contemporary relevance of the Greeks.
B. The Birth of Tragedy .
C. Culture.
D. The wisdom of Silenus.
E. Apollo and Dionysus.
F. Apollinian culture.
G. Lyric poetry.
H. Greek tragedy.
I. The death of tragedy and the birth of Socratism.
J. The contemporary task.
IV. Truth
A. General issues in Nietzsche s essay on truth.
B. The value and nature of truth.
C. Falsification and forgetfulness.
D. A music-practicing Socrates.
V. History
A. Human temporality.
B. History and life.
C. Kinds of history.
D. History as threat to life.
E. Nihilism.
VI. Morality
A. Freedom and morality.
B. The ground of morality.
C. Life as will to power.
D. Morality and life.
E. The slave revolt.
F. Contradictions.
VII. The death of God
A. The madman.
B. God as crime against life.
C. Our role in the killing of God.
D. The lantern.
E. This-worldly comfort.
F. Transformation into overman.
G. Beginning of a higher history.
H. The shadows of God.
I. Madness.
VIII. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A. The task of becoming overman.
B. The task of homecoming.
C. Image-language.
D. The central idea of Thus Spoke Zarathustra .
E. Thus Spoke Zarathustra as tragedy.
F. Images in the Prologue.
G. First stage of homecoming: the camel.
H. Second stage of homecoming: the lion.
I. Final stage of homecoming: the child.
J. The child in the First Part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra .
K. Marriage and women.
L. The child in the Second Part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra .
M. The night song.
N. The dancing song.
O. The tomb song.
P. Metaphysics.
Q. Knowledge and truth.
R. Night.
S. Priority of art over truth.
T. The sublime man.
U. Philosophy and art.
V. The eternal recurrence.
W. Conclusion. Song.

Editor s Afterword
Index
Key to the Citations of Nietzsche s Works
N IETZSCHE S WRITINGS WILL be cited according to the following abbreviations. The translations provided in the lectures are at times modifications of the published versions. The standard German text is the ongoing critical edition in two series: complete works (Friedrich Nietzsche, Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe , 48 volumes) and complete correspondence (Friedrich Nietzsche, Briefwechsel: Kritische Gesamtausgabe , 24 volumes) edited by Giorgio Colli and Mazzimo Montinari (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1967-).
A: The Antichrist: Attempt at a Critique of Christianity , tr. Walter Kaufmann in The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Viking, 1968).
BGE: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future , tr. Walter Kaufmann in Basic Writings of Nietzsche (New York: Random House, 1968).
BT: The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music , tr. Walter Kaufmann in Basic Writings of Nietzsche (New York: Random House, 1968).
D: The Dawn of Day: Thoughts on Moral Prejudices , tr. John McFarland Kennedy (London: Foulis, 1911).
EH: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is , tr. Walter Kaufmann in Basic Writings of Nietzsche (New York: Random House, 1968).
GM: On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic , tr. Walter Kaufmann in Basic Writings of Nietzsche (New York: Random House, 1968).
GS: The Gay Science , tr. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1967). Occasionally the quotations are taken from the translation by Thomas Common ( The Joyful Wisdom , London: Foulis, 1910).
HATH: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits , tr. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
IB: The Innocence of Becoming: Selections from Nietzsche s Literary Remains . No published English translation; references are to the German edition. See Die Unschuld des Werdens in the chronology below.
NCW: Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Out of the Files of a Psychologist , tr. Walter Kaufmann in The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Viking, 1968).
PT: Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche s Notebooks of the Early 1870 s , tr. Daniel Breazeale (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1979). Contains On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense.
PTAG: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks , tr. Marianne Cowan (Chicago: Regnery, 1962).
SL: Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche , ed. and tr. Christopher Middleton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969).
TI: Twilight of the Idols: Or, How One Philosophizes with a Hammer , tr. Walter Kaufmann in The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Viking, 1968).
TSZ: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None , tr. Walter Kaufmann in The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Viking, 1968).
UM: Untimely Meditations , tr. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983). Translation of the second meditation, On the uses and disadvantages of history for life, modified according to the version by Adrian Collins, The Use and Abuse of History (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1957).
WeP: We Philologists , tr. John McFarland Kennedy (London: Foulis, 1911).
WP: The Will to Power: Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values. Studies and Fragments , tr. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Random House, 1967).
Chronology of the original German, by date of composition, including the volume number of the Colli-Montinari edition of the Werke :

1872
Die Geburt der Trag die aus dem Geiste der Musik (BT) Vol. III/1
1873
Die Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen (PTAG) Vol. III/2
1873
ber Wahrheit und L ge im au ermoralischen Sinne (PT) Vol. III/2
1873-76
Unzeitgem sse Betrachtungen (UM) Vols. III/1 and IV/1
1874
Wir Philologen (WeP) Vol. IV/1
1878-80
Menschliches, Allzumenschliches: Ein Buch f r freie Geister (HATH) Vol. IV/2-3
1881
Die Morgenr te: Gedanken ber die moralischen Vorurteile (D) Vol. V/1
1882
Die fr hliche Wissenschaft (GS) Vol. V/2
1883-85
Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch f r Alle und Keinen (TSZ) Vol. VI/1
1883-88
Der Wille zur Macht: Versuch einer Umwertung aller Werte. Studien und Fragmente (WP) Vols. VII-IX but only as literary remains without a title
1883-88
Die Unschuld des Werdens: Der Nachla , 2 vols., ed. A. Baeumler (Stuttgart: Kr ner, 1956) (IB)
1886
Jenseits von Gut und B se: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft (BGE) Vol. VI/2
1887
Zur Genealogie der Moral: Eine Streitschrift (GM) Vol. VI/2
1888
Der Antichrist: Versuch einer Kritik des Christentums (A) Vol. VI/3
1888
Ecce Homo: Wie man wird, was man ist (EH) Vol. VI/3
1888
G tzen-D mmerung: oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt (TI) Vol. VI/3
1888
Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Aktenst cke eines Psychologen (NCW) Vol. VI/3

I. Introduction
I AM NO MAN , I am dynamite. That is what Nietzsche once said of himself (EH, p. 782), and his words were prophetic, for if we have learned anything from the wretched abuses to which his thought has been subjected, it is this: like dynamite, Nietzsche must be handled with the greatest care.
Nietzsche is easy to read; his is apparently the easiest of all the great philosophies. Yet the easy intelligibility is deceptive. Nietzsche s writings make us believe we have understood when in fact we have not. His philosophy is actually the exact opposite of easy. Most of the opinions about Nietzsche that have been bandied about for decades result from this illusion of immediate intelligibility. So we must be constantly on guard to unlearn what we have heard about him.
The full title Nietzsche gave to one of his last works is Twilight of the Idols: Or, How One Philosophizes with a Hammer . It is ironic that, as Nietzsche himself declares, the kind of hammer he will take up is not a sledgehammer but the tiny hammer used to strike a tuning fork. Nietzsche does not prop