The Rogue of All Rogues: Nietzsche's Presentation of Eduard von Hartmann's Philosophie des Unbewussten and Hartmann's Response to Nietzsche

Abstract

few mentions have appeared in the secondary literature come to us more often than not in the form of discussions of Nietzsche and psychology in general.2 Hartmann was, however, one of the first psychologists whose works Nietzsche read a great deal.3 Over time, Nietzsche came to own six large volumes of his writings, two of which remain in his private library, and many pages of which bear Nietzsche's marginal notes.4 His name and thought appear prominently in part 2 of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life (hereafter HL), and even more so in his Nachlass and per sonal correspondence.5 Nietzsche's interest in Hartmann endured throughout his career.6 Moreover, Hartmann was himself one of the earliest commentators on Nietzsche, having already in 1891 and 1898 published articles on Nietzsche's so-called neue Moral? His significance as a psychologist and the importance of his Philosophie des Unbewussten (Philosophy of the Unconscious) to Nietzschean scholarship thus stands assured but too often unrecognized.8 This neglect, however, is not without cause: the overgrown thicket of Nietzsche's relation to Hartmann is difficult to traverse because of the exceed