Nietzsche
This chapter focuses on the aphorisms of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche's philology on fragments became a philosophy of fragments when he abandoned his profession as a classicist in the late 1870s. Rather than just studying aphorisms, he started producing them. In the most productive stretch of his life—from Human, All Too Human (1878) to Ecce Homo (1888)—he composed thousands upon thousands of pithy sayings and maxims. Nietzsche proposes a radical hermeneutics that bridges writing and ethics: he wants his readers ultimately to stop reading, stop interpreting, and start living. For Nietzsche, readers must create at last their own values, for “nobody can get more out of things, including books, than what he already knows.”
2020 ◽
Vol 2
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pp. 59-73
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Vol 145
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pp. 51-54
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