GER361
11/4/2004
FAZ Artikel:
30.10.2004 ?ber Kerry/Bush und Hegel Herr/Knecht Verhaltnis
Nietzsche:
-- Menchen wie eine Aufgabe
-- man braucht Geschichte f?r unsere Entwicklung als Mensch
-- er bewunderte Wagner, der N. adoptierte
-- sie sprachen ?ber Schopenhauer
-- W war eine Art Held f?r N
[Wagner's over the top operas were forerunners to Hollywood.]
-- idea that N loved W (but not in a gay way?)
-- N broke with W partly because W was anti-Semitic
-- N was against all minorities
-- either you piss on others or you get pissed on
N reacting against the trend towards idolizing the Middle Ages
N flipped Marx who flipped Hegel. For N the nobels were the good people.
-- he really hates the Christians for being wimps
Pulling oneself up by the bootstraps is very N.
-- professors didn't teach N in the 1910s but students read N
N was trying to figure out power relationships; Fouccault followed on that.
Der historische Mensch benutzt die Geschichte f?r die Zunkunft. Der ?berhistorische Mensch focuses too much on a historical event and can't move forward.
"Gewissensbiss ist unanst?ndig"
N thinks that a strong person can forget.
Tieren sind unfrei. Sie sind ehrlich weil sie m?ssen.
N thought we should be ?berhistorische but that we cannot.
If we were all ?berhistorische then we'd need no government or religion.
(Dr S gave tests on the honor system at Rice University)
German expressionism in the 1920s is what followed Nietzsche (he was a catalyst)
Read das Rheingold for Tuesday.