how the 'true friedrich nietzsche' finally did become a fable? the story of an error
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Nietzsche’s philosophical autobiography, Ecce Homo, could also be characterized as literature. It deserves a special position not only in philosophy, but in the Western literary tradition of self-narratives. It ought to be considered a unique textual self-study, of which narratological analysis serves a special lesson. It has to be analysed as the culmination of such a process, that in the course of it, following a consistently completed rhetorical, narratological and cultic strategy, Nietzsche took deliberate steps towards a narrative restructuring of his oeuvre for a „posthumous” readership. How did this restructuring process take place and what are the present results of this total recontextualization? It can be most vividly highlighted by using the instruments of contemporary narratology and literary parallels like Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Montaigne, Musil, Borges, Nabokov, Salinger and others.TRANSCRIPT
How the 'True Friedrich Nietzsche' Finally Did Become a Fable?The Story of an Error
byKristóf Fenyvesi
Jyväskylä UniversityDoctoral School of Hungarian Studies
27 May 2010University of Vaasa, Finland
www.kristoffenyvesi.hu
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, 1846-1935
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, 1846-1935
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask
Max Klinger
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse
Max Klinger
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse
Max Klinger
The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse
Max Klinger
The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar„I am a Doppelgänger, I have a
'second' face in addition to the first. And perhaps also a third.” Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph
'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ecce Homo manuscript, 1888
Max Klinger
The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar„I am a Doppelgänger, I have a
'second' face in addition to the first. And perhaps also a third.” Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph
2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph
2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph
3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”
3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”
- stimulus detection
3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”
- stimulus detection
- transfigurational activity
3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”
- stimulus detection
- transfigurational activity
„double metaphorization”
3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian”
- stimulus detection
- transfigurational activity
„double metaphorization”
Nietzsche signs the Ecce Homo as:
'Dionysus versus the Crucified.'
4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo
4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo 1.
- the new prefaces of the re-edited older works, published between 1886-1887;- Nietzsche's newer works between 1883-1889
4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo 1.
- the new prefaces of the re-edited older works, published between 1886-1887;- Nietzsche's newer works between 1883-1889
2.- Nietzsche's letters written between 1886 and 1889
4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces
4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces
1886-87: second editions, and new prefaces to - The Birth of Tragedy- Human, All-Too-Human- Daybreak- The Gay Science
4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces
1886-87: second editions, and new prefaces to - The Birth of Tragedy- Human, All-Too-Human- Daybreak- The Gay Science
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-85); Beyond Good and Evil (1886); On the Genealogy of Morality (1887); The Case of Wagner (1888); Twilight of the Idols (1888); The Antichrist (1888); Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888)
4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces
...the whole Nietzschean philosophical oeuvre’s narrative structure is established by the Nietzschean inshights represented by the works written between 1886 and 1889.
4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces
...the whole Nietzschean philosophical oeuvre’s narrative structure is established by the Nietzschean inshights represented by the works written between 1886 and 1889.
...only three years’ textual work puts into a narrative frame the whole oeuvre, which was originally created during two decades.
4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces
4.2. Letters to Readers – Letter to a Danish friend
4.2. Letters to Readers – Letter to a Danish friend
Georg Brandes, 1842-1927
5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse
5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo breaks away from the- Saint Augustinian autobiographical tradition
5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo breaks away from the- Saint Augustinian autobiographical tradition- Rousseauean 'apologetical' narrative
5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo
- applying the thought of eternal recurrence
5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to CollapseThe Ecce Homo
- applying the thought of eternal recurrence
- says 'yes' its author's altered past
5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather individual errors; the individual itself is an error. […] To stop feeling oneself as such a fantastic ego! To learn gradually to throw away the supposed individual! To discover the errors of the ego! [...] Beyond "me" and "you"! To feel cosmically.' (Nietzsche, 9, 441-2)
5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather individual errors; the individual itself is an error. […] To stop feeling oneself as such a fantastic ego! To learn gradually to throw away the supposed individual! To discover the errors of the ego! [...] Beyond "me" and "you"! To feel cosmically.' (Nietzsche, 9, 441-2)
'I am every name in history.'
Nietzsche
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
NarrativeFramework model
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
NarrativeFramework model
NarrativeFramework model
Stack model
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
Nietzsche's double aim:
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'
- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'
- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later
- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'
- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later
- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project
Solution:
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'
- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later
- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project
Solution: to build up a new metanarrative
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'
- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later
- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project
Solution: to build up a new metanarrative - include subsequently written prefaces into the new editions and modify the earlier texts and their structure
6. The Case of the
Augmented Level:
Nietzsche's Travel to his
Past
Nietzsche's double aim:to make his 'posthumus readers'
- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he developed later
- to present his whole oeuvre as an exceptionally well-organized project
Solution: to build up a new metanarrative - include subsequently written prefaces into the new editions and modify the earlier texts and their structure
Thank you very much for your attention!
All Nietzsche-montages used in this presentation are from Sándor Vály's (Helsinki) 'After Nietzschean Narratives' series, except on the slides nr. 37-39. which is the work of Giuliano Cocco.
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