A new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche's most neglected work.
This study is an interpretation of the four essays that comprise Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations (also called the Untimely Meditations) as a single, coherent whole whose focus is to educate their readers toward self-cultivation and genuine culture and ultimately to the philosophic life. Jozef Majernķk engages in a close reading of each of the essays, finding in them Nietzsche's theoretical understanding of human life in general as well as the best possible kind of life and plans for large-scale cultural reform in conjunction with Wagner's Bayreuth project. The focal point of Majernķk's interpretation is the complex understanding of the nature of the human soul found in the Untimely Considerations, which he terms the "erotic-historic soul" after its two main constituent parts, desiring and memory. He argues that this conception of the soul is, at its core, the same model that we find in Nietzsche's mature works.
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"Majernķk's original study of the Untimely Meditations convincingly argues that the work cannot be skipped when one treats Nietzsche's philosophy of culture, specifically from a pedagogical and psychological viewpoint. It will no doubt stimulate new research into Nietzsche's philosophical development." Martine Prange, author of Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe
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A new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche's most neglected work.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Summary of the Argument
Note on the Title
I. David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer: Nietzsche's Kulturkritik
I.1. Richard Wagner and the Origins of the UC
I.2. DS 13: Nietzsche's Critique of German Culture
I.3. DS 412: The Portrait of the Cultivated Philistine
II. On the Utility and Liability of History for Life: The Human Soul and Its
Modern Deformation
II.1. HL 1: The Erotic-Historic Soul
II.2. HL 23: Historia Magistra Vitae
II.3. HL 49: The Problem of Scientific History
II.4. Curing the Historical Sickness
III. Schopenhauer as Educator: The Good Life According to the Young
Nietzsche
III.1. SE 1: Erotic-Historic Self-Knowledge
III.2. SE 24: The Educator
III.3. SE 5: The "Schopenhauerian" Affirmation
III.4. SE 68: The Life of Culture
IV. Richard Wagner in Bayreuth: Wagner, Tragedy, and Free Human Beings of the
Future
IV.1. Becoming Richard Wagner
IV.2. Wagner's Tragic Art
IV.3. Wagnerian Musical Education
IV.4. Finale: The Free Human Beings of the Future
V. The Failures and the Successes of the Untimely Considerations
V.1. The Failure of the Project of the UC
V.2. The Sickness of the Thought of the UC
V.3. The Successes of the Thought of the UC
V.4. The Thought of the UC as a Means to Overcome Itself
V.5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Jozef Majernķk is Schwarz Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
