Reception Of Nietzsche Research Articles

Alois Riehls Blick auf Friedrich Nietzsche und sein Verhältnis zu Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche

Abstract Alois Riehl’s View of Friedrich Nietzsche and His Relationship with Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Alois Riehl and Friedrich Nietzsche were contemporaries – both were born in the same year, 1844. But the philosophical paths they followed could hardly be more different. Nevertheless, Riehl recognized Nietzsche as one of the most important thinkers of his time. He was one of the first academic philosophers to devote a detailed analysis to Nietzsche’s writings. And Riehl saw in Nietzsche’s work a complementary counterpart to the scientific philosophy that he developed in his Philosophical Criticism. At the heart of the present paper is a speech given by Riehl on October 15, 1903, on the occasion of the reopening of the Villa Silberblick and the unveiling of Max Klinger’s bust of Nietzsche. The argument is divided into three parts. First, it reconstructs the background to these events historically in light of the friendly relationship between Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche and Riehl, as well as Riehl’s hesitation to give a speech. Second, Riehl’s ambivalent attitude in his reception of Nietzsche is analyzed through a close reading of his text. Third, the paper concludes with a final look at the specific event of October 15, 1903, based on historical material.

Translating Nietzsche's Atheism(s)

The paper will examine Kaufmann’s translation of Genealogy of Morals (GM), specifically a section of GM III §27, where the translator’s choice of a single word skews an important insight of Nietzsche’s on the question of modern atheism. Kaufmann’s influential translation, highly regarded for its stylistic refinement, has served as the starting point for most English translations that followed, and so his rendering of this section continues to impact the current Anglo-American reception of Nietzsche’s work. By challenging Kaufmann’s rendering of an important section of GM III §27, the paper will extrapolate a more nuanced understanding of atheism from Nietzsche’s position. This awareness problematizes current attempts to equate Nietzsche with a scientific naturalist program.

Die Nietzsche-Rezeption in der deutsch-jüdischen Presse von 1892 bis 1918

Abstract The Reception of Nietzsche in the German-Jewish Press from 1892 to 1918. The article analyses Nietzsche’s reception in the German-Jewish press from 1892 to 1918 on the basis of the archives of Richard Krummel. Several narratives can be identified, which, divided into three thematic fields – Nietzsche’s biography, “the Jews”, “the Jewry” – run through the German-Jewish Nietzsche reception and are discussed in the following way: after general remarks on the reception, the quoted aphorisms are analyzed. The treatment of Nietzsche’s biography in the German-Jewish press and Nietzsche’s view on the “racial superiority” of “the Jews” are examined. Nietzsche’s distinction between ancient and modern Judaism, his slave morality theorem and the oppositions between Judea and Athens / Rome are also discussed.

Ch. Palahniuk’s Novel «Fight Club» in Terms of F. Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Nihilism

Based on the material of Ch. Palahniuk’s novel «Fight Club», the article examines the nihilistic predestination of the antihero’s split personality, taking into account F. Nietzsche’s conception. The aim of the study is to prove that the anonymous narrator and the character of Tyler Durden’s images, symbolizing two fragments of the antihero’s personality, manifest the passive and active nihilistic position, respectively. The research is carried out in the format of the comparative approach, which is aimed at identifying the features of Ch. Palahniuk’s creative reception of Nietzsche’s nihilistic ideas, parallels in their metaphysical worlds. The study showed that in order to highlight the process of disintegration of postmodern reality, Ch. Palahniuk uses the main provisions of Nietzsche’s philosophy of nihilism. The novel is interpreted in terms of F. Nietzsche’s philosophy, since it systematically reveals all aspects of nihilism. The characters’ images are based on the theory of religious, radical and complete nihilism. The concept of nihilism is explicated at the personal, psychological and sociological level of the narrative. Personal and psychological levels are combined in order to create images of religious, radical (active and passive) and complete nihilists. The narrator is a religious nihilist, and as the narrative unfolds, his passive nihilistic position increases. Tyler Durden, the antipode of the narrator’s split personality, turns out to be a complete nihilist. It is concluded that the combination of both fragments of the antihero’s personality forms the image of a radical nihilist who does not reach the stage of complete denial of higher values. The society reproduced in the text of the novel, based on the Christian-Platonic cultural tradition, suffers from religious nihilism. The narrative explicates Nietzsche’s principle of deconstruction in the direction of reconstruction. F. Nietzsche’s views of the complete nihilism as a project of superman are being realized. The superhuman spirit that Tyler possesses pushes his will to power to destroy civilization and instill faith in other characters in their will to power in order to achieve their aspirations, freedom from history, culture and the higher values that control them.

The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche

The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche

Nietzsche e Sartre na encruzilhada: itinerários de filósofos andarilhos

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate points that attaches and separate the philosophical paths taken by Nietzsche and Sartre; thus, after a brief passage about Nietzsche's reception in France and, in particular, around Sartre's impressions on the German philosopher, the article discourses the concept of corporeality developed by the authors, and then, reflects on the notion of acting arising from this conception: if we are not commanded by a rational-volitional mechanism, what moves human actions? Freedom, Sartre will answer; the Will to Power, Nietzsche would say. And if Nietzsche's philosophy demands for everyone to make themselves an artistic work, Sartre appeals to the situation circumscribed by free action. Finally, the article proposes an extemporaneous dialogue between wandering philosophers around the freedom-responsibility, body-consciousness correlations, to think about such questions.

Nietzsche's Looming Presence in the 1930s Dance Polemics of John Martin and Lincoln Kirstein

Some of the most perplexingly antagonistic comments about the differences between modern dance and ballet can be found strewn throughout the works of two pioneering twentieth-century American dance writers: John Martin (1893–1985) – The New York Times's first permanent dance critic, champion of modern dancers and early supporter of Martha Graham ( Kisselgoff et al. 1988 : 44) – and Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996), the prodigious author, impresario, and balletomane, who cofounded with George Balanchine the New York City Ballet. Looming behind a significant number of Martin's and Kirstein's appraisals and condemnations of modern dance and ballet are Friedrich Nietzsche's aesthetics, particularly his Apollonian-Dionysian conceptualisations. This essay investigates the reception of Nietzsche in the context of the 1930s writing of these two dance critics, particularly in respect to their treatment of gender. Foundational for this essay's development are the analyses of Nietzsche's reception by earlier twentieth-century dance figures in the works of Susan Jones (2013 , 2010 ), Susan Manning (2006) and Kimerer LaMothe (2006) .

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy

Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy

Vienna Circle's Reception of Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was among the figures from the history of nineteenth-century philosophy that, perhaps surprisingly, some of the Vienna Circle’s members had presented as one of their predecessors. While, primarily for political reasons, most Anglophone figures in the history of analytic philosophy had taken a dim view of Nietzsche, the Vienna Circle’s leader Moritz Schlick admired and praised Nietzsche, rejecting what he saw as a misinterpretation of Nietzsche as a militarist or proto-fascist. Schlick, Frank, Neurath, and Carnap were in different ways committed to the view that Nietzsche made a significant contribution to the overcoming of metaphysics. Some of these philosophers praised the intimate connection Nietzsche drew between his philosophical outlook and empirical studies in psychology and physiology. In his 1912 lectures on Nietzsche, Schlick maintained that Nietzsche overcame an initial Schopenhauerian metaphysical-artistic phase in his thinking, and subsequently remained a positivist until his last writings. Frank and Neurath made the weaker claim that Nietzsche contributed to the development of a positivistic or scientific conception of the world. Schlick and Frank took a further step in seeing the mature Nietzsche as an Enlightenment thinker.

Texte et Contexte. Georges Bataille Lecteur de Nietzsche dans la RevueAcéphale

AbstractThis essay analyzes the first among the three moments of Georges Bataille’s reception of Nietzsche’s thought. During the 1930s, in the context of the reviewAcéphale, the French writer takes position in the debate about the relationship between Nietzscheism and fascism. He lays claim on the heritage of the German thinker as the source of a “heterogeneous” politics. This group of articles provides the context in which Bataille can start to delineate an original meditation on the relationship between work and society. In this sense, they will mark a turning point in the path toward the post-war developments on the writers’ engagement. A new thematization of the relationship between text and context will emerge from the confrontation with Nietzsche and from the articulation of the fundamental duality of the forms of politics.

Vom Krieg zur Liebe. Nietzsches Philosophieren über Männlichkeiten im Lichte von Gegenwartsdebatten

Abstract Recent discussions have connected Nietzsche’s philosophy of masculinity to the return of authoritarian politics. Neoconservative debates about masculinity, and right-wing extremism, explicitly refer back to Nietzsche’s philosophy and often present democratization, a feminization of society, and political correctness as responsible for a weakening of masculinity. One example for this reception of Nietzsche’s writings is Jordan Peterson’s psychological diagnosis of a presumed crisis of masculinity. This article undertakes a comparison of Nietzsche’s philosophy of masculinities with Peterson’s neo-Jungian psychology of masculinity in the context of recent conceptualizations of patriarchy, misogyny, and gendered forms of ressentiment. This comparison will highlight that Nietzsche’s conception of masculinity is more complex, and has philosophically more to offer, than neoconservative ideas about masculinity that onesidedly foreground male strength. Finally it will be pointed out how a Jungian analysis discloses aspects of the Dionysian that are of relevance to contemporary gender studies of Nietzsche’s philosophy.

Nietzsche tegenover Schmitt

Abstract Nietzsche versus Schmitt. Agonal versus political thinking This article concerns the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche by Carl Schmitt with regard to the concept of the agon. In the 1933 edition of Der Begriff des Politischen Schmitt states that there is a ‘great metaphysical opposition’ (große metaphysische Gegensatz) between his political thinking and agonal thinking, the latter of which is associated with Nietzscheans like Alfred Baeumler and Ernst Jünger. It is argued that this metaphysical opposition is best explained in light of Schmitt’s intellectual development from decisionist to concrete order thinker. Moreover, it is argued that the reception of Nietzsche’s concept of the agon by Schmitt took place through Baeumler. Nietzsche’s concept of the agon is best described as a measured productive struggle between opponents who are approximately equal to each other. In the reception of Nietzsche’s concept of the agon a shift of focus occurs from a struggle between individuals to a struggle between collectives. At the same time the social character of the agon is lost, which was expressed in the thought that the individual could only develop his talents in a struggle with others.

A Forgotten Philosopher Juozapas Čepėnas: Ethic Insights

The article deals with ethic insights of the priest Juozapas Čepėnas (1880–1976), who published a study cycle on Nietzsche. This cycle is significant in the context of an early reception of Nietzsche’s ideas in Lithuania; however, the author himself appears to remain an undeservedly forgotten thinker of the national school of thought. The article attempts to bring back Čepėnas’ philosophical outlooks and analyse the factors that shaped his philosophical position such as his academic upbringing in German classical universities and Čepėnas’ subsequent activities overstepping the boundaries of a clerical work. The article offers a new interdisciplinary approach in reviewing Čepėnas’ dissertation thesis that earned him a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Freiburg University. The thesis is analysed in comparison to other Čepėnas’ philosophical writings on Dostoevsky produced at the period of university studies and later during his clerical service in Lithuania. Ethical aspects of Čepėnas’ thesis continue to hold relevance until the recent period of philosophical development. Čepėnas’ writings are viewed in parallel analysis with a spectrum of the Lithuanian existential thought. Critical contemplations on ethical principles in the cycle of articles on Nietzsche’s philosophy are emphasised. The article attempts to clarify Čepėnas’ understanding of the egotism of the superhuman, the reasons and the content of supplements of Christian ethics, and the concept of the secular purpose of life.

Nietzsche en el anarquismo rioplantense (1890-1910): Consideraciones teóricas y metodológicas

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 El microsistema de recepción temprana de la filosofía deNietzsche en el Río de la Plata se configuró a través de al-gunos operadores discursivos: el anarquismo, el idealismoarielista, el dandismo, el materialismo, la psicopatología,el anticlericalismo, el darwinismo social y el nacionalis-mo. En la disputa actual por la significación política de lasideas nietzscheanas, tanto la llamada “hermenéutica de lainocencia” como la interpretación “apolítica” de la filologíano historizan la fuerza ilocucionaria de los conceptos. Encambio, la perspectiva de la historia conceptual, entendidacomo pragmática de los conceptos, ofrece la alternativade comprender el efecto político del nietzscheanismo. Si-guiendo esta última línea de análisis, este trabajo estudiala relación entre la corriente del anarconietzscheanismoy las prácticas de la eugenesia durante la hegemonía delpositivismo.
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Revaluations through Dance: Friedrich Nietzsche's Thought in Isadora Duncan's Speech The Dance of the Future

Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on Isadora Duncan's work, in particular his idea of the Dionysian, has been widely discussed, especially in regard to her later work. What has been left underdeveloped in critical examinations of her work, however, is his influence on her earlier choreographic work, which she defended in a famous speech held in 1903 called The Dance of the Future. While commentators often describe this speech as ‘Nietzschean’, Duncan's autobiography suggests that she only studied Nietzsche's work after this speech. I take this incongruity as a starting point to explore the connections between her speech and Nietzsche's work, in particular his Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I argue that in subject and language Duncan's speech resembles Nietzsche's in important ways. This article will draw attention to the ways in which Duncan takes her cues from Nietzsche in bringing together seemingly conflicting ideas of religion and an overturning of morality; Nietzsche's notion of eternal recurrence and the teleology present in his idea of the Übermensch; and a renegotiation of the body's relation to the mind. In doing so, this article contributes not only to scholarship on Duncan's early work but also to discussions of Nietzsche's reception in the early twentieth century. Moreover, the importance Duncan ascribes to the body in dance and expression also asks for a new understanding of Nietzsche's own way of expressing his philosophy.

Götz di Berlichingen no sertão baiano: Wilson Lins e as peripécias do anti-herói brasileiro que interpelou o Zaratustra de Nietzsche


 
 
 O presente trabalho procura apresentar perspectivas e interrogações a partir de estudos e pesquisas em andamento desenvolvidos em parceria entre a Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz – UESC/BA e a Università degli Studi di Torino. Tais estudos versam sobre A recepção de Nietzsche no Brasil a partir da Bahia: Wilson Lins e sua circunstância e intencionam contribuir com o debate acerca da recepção das ideias de Nietzsche em terras brasileiras. Tal debate, a partir da Bahia, passa necessariamente pela apresentação da tragédia Götz di Berlichingen de Goethe, pelos conceitos nietzscheanos e pela literatura de Wilson Lins.
 
 

Allemanism in Recife and the First Reception of Nietzsche in Brazil

Resumo Este artigo tem por objetivo investigar a primeira recepção da filosofia de Nietzsche no Brasil, que ocorre na Escola de Recife. Para tanto, num primeiro momento, examina de forma histórico-filosófica a formação do movimento intelectual dentro da faculdade pernambucana que, entre seus objetivos, busca construir uma identidade nacional que se distancie do predomínio europeu. Em seguida, analisa a primeira citação explícita de Tobias Barreto de 1876 que acontece em meio a esse momento de efervescência sociocultural e serve de mote para os alunos vindouros, concebendo uma filosofia mais combativa e criativa. Por fim, investiga membros estudiosos germanistas que, além de trazerem obras alemãs para a faculdade pernambucana, acreditaram que elas poderiam fornecer o aperfeiçoamento cultural para o Brasil através do allemanismo.

Nietzsche's Great Politics

Nietzsche's Great Politics

Nietzsche als Dichter. Lyrik – Poetologie – Rezeption

Nietzsche als Dichter. Lyrik – Poetologie – Rezeption

The prohibited Nietzsche: anti-Nitzscheanism in Soviet Russia

This article discusses the reception of Nietzsche’s philosophy within the USSR. It covers the four phases of Soviet Nietzscheanism between 1920 and 1980, paying specific attention to the Soviet Nietzsche studies of the Stalin epoch. By making use of publications and archive materials, this article reconstructs the historical and logical formation of Nietzsche’s negative image in post-revolutionary Russia that characterized him as an ideologist of imperialism and National Socialism. In addition to this, this article examines the facts impeding the process of Nietzsche’s de-nazification in Russia.