Untimely Meditations
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Untimely Meditations
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Narrated by:
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AI Voice F. Hearts
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Summary
Between 1873 and 1876 the young Nietzsche, then a professor of classical philology at Basel, wrote four essays against his own age. He called them untimely because each set itself deliberately against the spirit of the moment: the self-satisfied culture of the new German Empire, its faith in scholarship and progress, and the idea that history exists to justify the present.
The first essay attacks David Strauss, the celebrated theologian, as the model of the complacent "cultural philistine". The second, On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, asks how much memory a people can bear, and remains one of the most influential things Nietzsche wrote. The third holds up Schopenhauer as a true educator, a thinker who lived by his thought. The fourth, Richard Wagner in Bayreuth, is his last public tribute to the composer before their famous break.
Together they show Nietzsche becoming Nietzsche: the questions about culture, education and what makes a life worth living that run through all his later work are already here, argued with a young man's energy. This new translation presents all four meditations complete.
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