hi Alison,
I am very attentive in accepting what you say about the Gay Science here:
" Somewhere in The Gay Science is a prescient and
> precise indictment of the characteristics of the German nation which
> resulted in the adulation of Hitler"
whenever you think of N. you have to remember he was against any kind of
groupism, of "isms".
And for the same reason I am not a feminist. I do not like the many voices
concept unless it is a well-rehearsed choir.
Take care, Anny
> My favourite book of Nietzsche's is The Gay Science. I think he's
> very funny, and very sad, and very mistaken, and very infuriating,
> and very contradictory, and very accurate about many things, and most
> of all provoking of thought. But he seems to me most certainly of
> his time: in Ecco Homo, perhaps, it seems most clear, that only the
> trivial and stifling conventionalities of his time could have driven
> him to such extremes.
>
> The Nazism is an uncomfortable coda. It's not irrelevant to what he
> wrote, although what the Nazis did to his writing is of course a
> severe distortion. Somewhere in The Gay Science is a prescient and
> precise indictment of the characteristics of the German nation which
> resulted in the adulation of Hitler. The rise of Nazism would have
> disgusted him, though perhaps not for the right reasons; he would
> have hated the way its acolytes subsumed their individual will in the
> hysteria of the Reich.
>
> At 2:19 PM +0200 13/8/02, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> >I wish to underline that I am not a feminist
>
> Why?
>
> Best
>
> Alison
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