The Young Nietzsche's Education : An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations

Majerník, Jozef

State University of New York Press（2025/07発売）

State University of New York Press（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798855802467
• DDC分類 193

Full Description

A new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche's most neglected work.

This study is an interpretation of the four essays that comprise Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations (also called the Untimely Meditations) as a single, coherent whole whose focus is to educate their readers toward self-cultivation and genuine culture and ultimately to the philosophic life. Jozef Majerník engages in a close reading of each of the essays, finding in them Nietzsche's theoretical understanding of human life in general as well as the best possible kind of life and plans for large-scale cultural reform in conjunction with Wagner's Bayreuth project. The focal point of Majerník's interpretation is the complex understanding of the nature of the human soul found in the Untimely Considerations, which he terms the "erotic-historic soul" after its two main constituent parts, desiring and memory. He argues that this conception of the soul is, at its core, the same model that we find in Nietzsche's mature works.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction
Summary of the Argument
Note on the Title

I. David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer: Nietzsche's Kulturkritik
I.1. Richard Wagner and the Origins of the UC
I.2. DS 1-3: Nietzsche's Critique of German Culture
I.3. DS 4-12: The Portrait of the Cultivated Philistine

II. On the Utility and Liability of History for Life: The Human Soul and Its Modern Deformation
II.1. HL 1: The Erotic-Historic Soul
II.2. HL 2-3: Historia Magistra Vitae
II.3. HL 4-9: The Problem of Scientific History
II.4. Curing the Historical Sickness

III. Schopenhauer as Educator: The Good Life According to the Young Nietzsche
III.1. SE 1: Erotic-Historic Self-Knowledge
III.2. SE 2-4: The Educator
III.3. SE 5: The "Schopenhauerian" Affirmation
III.4. SE 6-8: The Life of Culture

IV. Richard Wagner in Bayreuth: Wagner, Tragedy, and Free Human Beings of the Future
IV.1. Becoming Richard Wagner
IV.2. Wagner's Tragic Art
IV.3. Wagnerian Musical Education
IV.4. Finale: The Free Human Beings of the Future

V. The Failures — and the Successes — of the Untimely Considerations
V.1. The Failure of the Project of the UC
V.2. The Sickness of the Thought of the UC
V.3. The Successes of the Thought of the UC
V.4. The Thought of the UC as a Means to Overcome Itself
V.5. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index