CALL FOR PAPERS
The 15th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society
NIETZSCHE ON TIME AND HISTORY
Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 16th – 18th September
2005
Nietzsche is well known for his criticism of all modes of thinking that
render temporal existence defective and illusory. According to many of his
remarks, ‘the whole’ must no longer be conceived as static and a-temporal.
Instead, he attempts to re-describe the relationship between past, present
and future by contesting the idea of time as a linear succession of moments
of presence. Time and space, being and becoming(s) enter into non-reductive
and creative relationships.
In the wake of Nietzsche’s attempt to rethink time, the task of recording
history also undergoes a fundamental reformulation. History can no longer
be a discipline that merely registers the successions and constellations of
entities and objects that remain identical over time. Nevertheless, history
remains an integral part of his thinking. ‘Only as the most general form of
history’, Nietzsche remarks in 1885, ‘is philosophy still acceptable to
me’. History has to fulfil a much wider and a much more dynamic task. While
philosophy definitely requires the corrective of history, the latter might
have to be improved through a new philosophy of time.
Does Nietzsche, as some critics have argued, merely idealise time,
transitoriness and difference in the same way that his predecessors
idealised permanence, being and identity? What are the new conceptions of
time that Nietzsche has to offer? What kind of historian was Nietzsche
himself? What kinds of ‘temporal’ histories and ‘historical’ philosophies
did Nietzsche write/or fail to write?
The Friedrich Nietzsche Society welcomes proposals for 30-minute papers on
the following themes:
• Time and/or History
• Becoming(s)
• Memory and Time
• Time and modern science
• Genealogy and repetition
• Human and trans-human time
• Time and immanent transcendence
• Eternal recurrence
• Static versus dynamic history
• History of the earth
• Nietzsche’s philosophy of history
• Nietzsche the historian
• Historical/temporal consciousness
• Reception of Nietzsche ideas of time and history in 20th century
Abstracts (no longer than 400 words) should be submitted by 01 April 2005
to Manuel Dries ([log in to unmask]). Early submissions are welcome.
For further information, please go to our website:
http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/md273/
Supported by: The Tiarks Fund Department of German, University of
Cambridge: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german The Friedrich Nietzsche Society:
http://www.fns.org.uk
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