Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-010
ed from it. 118 Chapter 5: Agonal Configurations in the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen
艾德。118第五章:Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen的Agonal构型
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-fm
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-014
G. Schank
Ecce Homo is a book of excesses, a book bursting to the point of incoherence. The text is saturated with the hyper-identity of an I inflated to world-historical, not to say cosmic proportions; yet One whose parts, whose claims collide or clash like a jigsaw puzzle that keeps going wrong. A self who is ‘wise’ and ‘healthy’ enough to have ‘always chosen [wählte] the right means’ of defence under bad conditions and the right company (books, people, landscapes) (EH weise 2, KSA 6.266 f.); but also a self who proclaims amor fati, that is: ‘not wanting anything otherwise’ (‘dass man Nichts anders haben will’, EH, klug 10, KSA 6.297) and accordingly ‘stuck to virtually intolerable situations, places, lodgings, company once I had chanced upon them’ (EH weise 6, KSA 6.273). These difficulties are exacerbated by the narrative structure of the book, which invites a continuous reading as the story of a life, yet continually disrupts such a reading with contradictions, discrepancies, incongruities and distortions that make us throw up our arms and exclaim, ‘How absurd!’ How absurd that Nietzsche should claim that the ‘no-saying, no-doing part’ of his task began with JGB (EH (JGB) 1, KSA 6.350). How absurd that he should invoke ‘the greatest of all tasks, the cultivation of higher humanity’ (EH Schicksal 4, KSA 6.313), but also claim that he has no memory of ‘“striving”’ or ‘“struggling”’, that ‘“willing”’ or ‘“wishing”’ anything at all are alien to him (EH klug 9, KSA 6.294 f.). Perhaps the most glaring discrepancies are those between Nietzsche’s self-descriptions in the book and what we know of his actual life. Yet, EH forces us to question the authority of biographical narratives, to recognise that however often the narratives intersect with what we know of Nietzsche’s life, this book is not about Herr Nietzsche: ‘What do we care about Herr Nietzsche?’ (to paraphrase FW Vorrede 2). Rather, we have to do with the construction of a fictional world, or more to the point: with fictional worlds, populated by fictional selves, and narrated from various positions. In this chapter, I will engage the feint of Nietzsche’s writing in EH by concentrating on some of the discrepancies and incongruities that are strictly internal to the book. They concern the term ‘Umwertung’, and the expression ‘Umwertung Aller Werte,’ which, while not unique to EH, do belong to it in a special way. As good Nietzsche scholars, we all think we know what this means. But if we consult EH,
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-013
In Nietzsche’s life-project of critical transvaluation (Umwertung), the prevailing values of European (Christian-Platonic) culture – whether religious, metaphysical or moral – are contested in the name of life as the highest value. It is his critical diagnosis of modernity that motivates his call for a transvaluation of all values, giving it direction and urgency, and from the period of Die fröhliche Wissenschaft and Zarathustra onwards, Nietzsche’s diagnosis is often expressed as a problematic of revenge and ressentiment, uncovered by his genealogical critique of modern values and their sources.1 In this chapter, I examine the practical implications of Nietzschean transvaluation through the lense of therapy and redemption.What practical consequences does Nietzsche draw from his diagnosis of ressentiment as our malady and the source of our malaise? Does he have a cure to offer, a way to heal the wound of ressentiment? Does he offer us a way out, a redemption from ressentiment? These questions raise in an acute form two of the fundamental problems afflicting Nietzsche’s critical thought. The first is an energetic problem: if, as Nietzsche argues, 2,000 years of re-
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-006
A transvaluation of all values: this question mark, so dark and so monstrous that it casts a shadow over the one who poses it – a destiny of a task like this forces him to run out into the sunlight every moment to shake off a seriousness that has become heavy, all too heavy. All means are justified, every “case” is a case of luck. Above all war.War has always been a great kind of prudence for spirits who have become too inward and profound; even in wounding [in der Verwundung] there is healing power. I have had as my motto for a long time a maxim, whose source I withhold from scholarly curiosity: increscunt animi, virescit volnere virtus. [...] [The spirit grows, strength is restored in wounding] This work too [...] is above all a recuperation, a sunspot, an escapade into the idle hours of a psychologist. And perhaps also a new war? And will new idols be sounded out? . . . This little work is a great declaration of war [...] (GD Vorwort, KSA 6.57 f.)
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-015
Siemens, H.W. (1998): “Nietzsche’s Hammer: Philosophy, Destruction, or The Art of Limited Warfare”. In: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 60/2, 321–347. Siemens, H.W. (2001a): “Nietzsche’s Agon with Ressentiment: Towards a Therapeutic Reading of Critical Transvaluation”. In: Continental Philosophy Review (formerly Man & World) 34/1, 69–93. Siemens, H.W. (2001b): “Agonal Configurations in the Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen: Identity, Mimesis and the Übertragung of cultures in Nietzsche’s early thought”. In: Nietzsche-Studien 30, 80–106. Siemens, H.W. (2001c): “Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy. A Review of Recent Literature”. In: Nietzsche-Studien 30, 509–526. Siemens, H.W. (2002): “Agonal Communities of Taste: Law and Community in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Transvaluation”. In: Journal of Nietzsche Studies 24 Special Issue on Nietzsche and the Agon, 83–112. (reprinted in: Francis Mootz III / Peter Goodrich (eds.): Nietzsche and Law, (Series: Philosophers and the Law). Aldershot, Ashgate, 309–338.) Siemens, H.W. (2005): “Action, Performance and Freedom in Hannah Arendt and Fr. Nietzsche”. In International Studies in Philosophy 37:3, 107–126. Siemens, H.W. (2006): “Nietzsche contra Liberalism on Freedom”. In: Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.): A Companion to Nietzsche. Oxford and Malden MA: Basil Blackwell, 437–454. Siemens, H.W. (2007): “The first Transvaluation of all Values: Nietzsche’s Agon with Socrates in The Birth of Tragedy”. In: Gudrun von Tevenar (ed.): Nietzsche and Ethics. Bern: Peter Lang, 171–196. Siemens, H.W. (2008b): “Nietzsche’s equivocations on the relation between democracy and ‘grosse Politik’”. In: Herman W. Siemens / Vasti Roodt (ed.s): Nietzsche, Power and Politics. Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 231–268. Siemens, H.W., (2008c): “Nietzsche and the Temporality of self-Legislation”. In: Manuel Dries (ed.): Nietzsche on Time and History. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 191–210. Siemens, H.W. (2009a): “(Self–)legislation, Life and Love in Nietzsche’s Philosophy”. In Isabelle Wienand (ed.): Neue Beiträge zu Nietzsches Moral–, Politik– und Kulturphilosophie. Fribourg: Press Academic Fribourg, 67–90. Siemens, H.W. (2009b): “Nietzsche’s Critique of Democracy”. In: Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38, Fall 2009, 20–37. Siemens, H.W. (2009c): “Umwertung: Nietzsche’s ‘war-praxis’ and the problem of Yes-Saying and No-Saying in Ecce Homo”. In: Nietzsche-Studien 38, pp.182–206. Siemens, H.W. (2009d) : Review of D. Conway: Nietzsche and the Political. In: Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 36, 207–216.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-004
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-011
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110217339.0.xxi
V. Roodt, H. Siemens
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Pub Date : 2021-11-08DOI: 10.1515/9783110722291-012
As argued in chapter 3, agonal texts do not consist simply of dyadic confrontations with Nietzsche’s chosen representatives of the values under critique. The ancient Greek agon, Nietzsche’s model for critique, was deeply embedded in communal life, mores and institutions, and artists were dependent on ‘the right public’ for adjudicating performances and outcomes (16[21], KSA 7.402). But what is the ‘right public’ (das rechte Publikum)? From what standpoint is it right (recht) – and by what standard of judgement or justice (Gerechtigkeit)? At stake here is the question of judgement or adjudication in the agon, of the law or standard of adjudication, or of justice. As readers of Nietzsche’s texts, the agon also implicates us as a public, together with his chosen adversaries in his critical confrontations.We can speak of an agonal law of production regulating his transvaluative texts only if production is inseparable from the question of interpretation: how to understand and adjudicate his agonal confrontations? What does it mean to respond to them and interpret them in agonal terms? And for Nietzsche’s readership, too, the question of ‘the right public’ needs to be raised.What is an agonal community of readers today? And by what standard or law can this community be convoked and constituted as the right readership? These questions, first raised in chapter 3, will now be pursued from a perspective in law by asking: What is the nature and status of law in an ‘agonal community’?1 In what sense can we speak of justice (Gerechtigkeit, Dike) as a standard of adjudication binding the public with agonal contestants, us readers, with Nietzsche’s critical confrontations? Given Nietzsche’s focus on values and the project of transvaluating all values, we also need to ask whether there is an ethical dimension to the question of law in the
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