Saying What One Means

Joseph Swenson
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Few would dispute that Nietzsche writes differently than most philosophers, especially when judged by the standards of contemporary philosophical writing. There is plenty of dispute, however, about why Nietzsche has chosen to present his thinking in the ways that he does. When one turns to much recent Nietzsche scholarship, it would appear that the literary quality of his writing is often treated as something that is merely accidental rather than integral to his philosophical project. Here one finds a working assumption that it is possible to paraphrase Nietzsche’s unconventional style of writing into more conventional forms of philosophical prose without losing sight of the philosophical goals that he is trying to achieve. This paper argues that this working assumption underappreciates the fact that Nietzsche’s chosen style of writing is intended to perform a variety of functions within his philosophy. One underappreciated function of Nietzsche’s writing, I will argue, aims to promote a radical disruption and revaluation of his readers’ basic habitual attitudes towards their experience of their own lives. Such therapeutic and transformative experiences, I conclude, are not only basic to Nietzsche’s philosophical project but are also intimately connected to the literary quality of his writing and cannot easily survive philosophical paraphrase.
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很少有人会质疑尼采与大多数哲学家的写作方式不同,尤其是当以当代哲学写作的标准来评判时。然而,关于尼采为何选择以他所做的方式来呈现他的思想,有很多争议。当一个人转向尼采最近的学术研究时,他的作品的文学品质似乎经常被视为偶然的东西,而不是他的哲学项目的组成部分。在这里,人们发现了一个可行的假设,即有可能将尼采非传统的写作风格改写为更传统的哲学散文形式,而不会忽视他试图实现的哲学目标。本文认为,这种假设低估了尼采所选择的写作风格是为了在他的哲学中发挥各种功能。我认为,尼采作品的一个未被充分认识的功能,旨在促进他的读者对他们自己生活经验的基本习惯态度的彻底破坏和重新评估。我的结论是,这种治疗性和变革性的经历不仅是尼采哲学项目的基础,而且与他作品的文学品质密切相关,不能轻易地在哲学解释中幸存下来。
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