Nietzsche on Time and History

Manuel Dries

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9783110190090
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110210460
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Epistemology in Philosophy

In 1885 Nietzsche insisted that from now on philosophy was only acceptable 'as the most general form of history, as an attempt somehow to describe Heraclitean becoming and to abbreviate it into signs.' Taking this remark as a starting point, the aim of this volume is to examine the intricate relationship between Nietzsche's philosophy of time and his philosophy of history. The questions that arise include: What are the new conceptions of time that Nietzsche has to offer? What kind of historian was Nietzsche himself? What kinds of temporalized histories and historicized philosophies did he write or fail to write? This collection of essays, written by fourteen academics including eminent figures such as John Richardson, Raymond Geuss, Lawrence J. Hatab, and Andrea Orsucci, constitute essential reading for specialists of Nietzsche, and will also appeal to a larger audience of intellectual historians, philosophers and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

Table of contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Abbreviations and Translations
• Nietzsche’s Critique of Staticism
• Nietzsche’s Cultural Criticism and his Historical Methodology
• Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams
• The Late Nietzsche’s Fundamental Critique of Historical Scholarship
• Nietzsche’s Timely Genealogy: An Exercise in Anti-Reductionist Naturalism
• From Kantian Temporality to Nietzschean Naturalism
• Nietzsche’s Problem of the Past
• Towards Adualism: Becoming and Nihilism in Nietzsche’s Philosophy
• Shocking Time: Reading Eternal Recurrence Literally
• Suicide, Meaning, and Redemption
• Nietzsche and the Temporality of (Self-)Legislation
• Geschichte or Historie? Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Philological Studies
• ‘An Uncanny Re-Awakening’: Nietzsche’s Renascence of the Renaissance out of the Spirit of Jacob Burckhardt
• Metaphysical and Historical Claims in The Birth of Tragedy
• Nietzsche’s Musical Conception of Time
• Backmatter