Studies in Continental Thought
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Studies in Continental Thought
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A "readable and fluent" translation of a work that demonstrates a crucial shift in Heidegger's approach to Nietzsche in the late 1930s ( Phenomenological Reviews ). In Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation, Martin Heidegger offers a radically different reading of a text that he had read decades earlier. This evolution in his relationship with Nietzsche has a significant impact on his understandings of the differences between animals and humans, temporality and history, and the Western philosophical tradition developed. With his new reading, Heidegger delineates three Nietzschean modes of history, which should be understood as grounded in the structure of temporality or historicity. He also offers a metaphysical determination of life and the essence of humankind. Despite the fragmentary and disjointed quality of the original lecture notes that comprise this text, Ullrich Hasse and Mark Sinclair deliver a clear and accessible translation.
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1. Monumental Historiology
To 1. For the characterization of history [Historie] the following two points are to be noted:
1. choosing an exemplar 2. conserving 3. judging | Here what is past (has been) is in each case related to: | 1. striving-power 2. venerating 3. suffering (being bound) |
1. | Threefold characterization of life—(with a view to what?) according to which three modes of history belong to it, and [71] from this it follows that life is in need of history in these respects. What is “life” such that it is in need of history? An unhistorical power? Or history? (monumental, antiquarian, and critical historiology). Here “historiology” not as “science,” but? Representing and producing of the past for the “present.” |
2.–6. | Monumental historiology. |
7. | Back to (1)—on all three modes as growths (of life), which each need their own particular soil and climate (“life”!). (Not every “truth” is for everyone.) If transplanted then weeds are produced. The advantages and disadvantages are principally clarified by an anticipatory projection (cf. sec. II, para. 2 and para. 7; also sec. IV, para. 1). |
2. | What monumental historiology is (see below, the concept of the monumental). The thinking back into what was once present (looking behind oneself), which here searches for and divines the summits of human life, and which originates from the understanding of life as harboring greatness and as what ought to harbor greatness again and again. Faith in humanity: faith in the persistent heights of humanity. Enlarging the concept of the “human being,” and thus an interpretation of human life, but what sort of interpretation? Activity—struggle—striving on the part of the powerful, “those who become,” “those who will,” who want “to create great things”! Monogram of their essence (that is, those who “genuinely” “live,” “those asserting themselves” by means of formative action and creation—but how, what for, and why?). |
History | • a making something present? of that which is merely past? |
• Or a re-membering? of that which was present as such? Remembering—but of humankind concerning human possibilities—related to “oneself” as the one remembering, as what already stands, is statuelike, exemplary, and thus binding. |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Translators’ Introduction
- A. Preliminary Remarks
- B. Section I: Structure. Preparation and Preview of the Guiding Question. Historiology—Life
- C. Section II: The Three Modes of Historiology 1. Monumental Historiology
- D. Section III
- E. Nietzsche’s Three Modes of Historiology and the Question of Historical Truth
- F. The Human Being Historiology and History. Temporality
- G. “Historiology”: Historiology and History. Historiology and the Unhistorical
- H. Section IV
- I. Section V
- J. Concerning Sections V and VI: Truth. “Justice.” “Objectivity.” Horizon
- K. On Sections V and VI: Historiology and Science (Truth) (cf. J. Truth “Justice” “Objectivity” Horizon)
- L. Section VI: (Justice and Truth)
- M. Nietzsche’s Metaphysics
- N. “Life”
- O. The Question of the Human Being: “Language.” “Happiness.” Language (cf. §15, “Forgetting” and “Remembering”)
- P. The Fundamental Stance of the: Second Untimely Meditation
- Q. Animality and Life. Animal—ζᾡον. (The “Living Body.” cf. Lectures of Winter Semester 1929/30)
- R. The Differentiation of Human Being and Animal
- S. “Privation”
- T. Structure and Composition of the: Second Untimely Meditation
- Addenda
- Editorial Postscript