'True Friedrich Nietzsche' Finally Did Become a Fable? the Story of an Error

How the 'True Friedrich Nietzsche' Finally Did Become a Fable? The Story of an Error

by Kristóf Fenyvesi

Jyväskylä University Doctoral School of Hungarian Studies

27 May 2010 University of Vaasa, Finland www.kristoffenyvesi.hu 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.' Friedrich Nietzsche 1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.' Friedrich Nietzsche 1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, 1846-1935 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.' Friedrich Nietzsche 1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

Friedrich Nietzsche's death mask 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.' Friedrich Nietzsche 1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

Max Klinger

Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.' Friedrich Nietzsche 1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar Max Klinger

Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.' Friedrich Nietzsche 1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar Max Klinger „I am a Doppelgänger, I have a 'second' face in addition to the first. And perhaps also a third.” Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Klinger's Nietzsche in bronse 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather mere individual errors - the Individual itself is an error.' Friedrich Nietzsche 1. The Death of the Lebensphilosoph

The Nietzsche Archive, Weimar Max Klinger „I am a Doppelgänger, I have a 'second' face in addition to the first. And perhaps Ecce Homo manuscript, 1888 also a third.” Nietzsche, Ecce Homo 2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph 2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph 2. The Life of the Lebensphilosoph 3. Ecce Narrative: the Corporeal Philology, Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian” 3. Ecce Narrative: the

Corporeal Philology, - stimulus detection Philosophy and Physiology of the „Dionysian” 3. Ecce Narrative: the

Corporeal Philology, - stimulus detection Philosophy and - transfigurational activity Physiology of the „Dionysian” 3. Ecce Narrative: the

Corporeal Philology, - stimulus detection Philosophy and - transfigurational activity Physiology of the

„Dionysian” „double metaphorization” 3. Ecce Narrative: the

Corporeal Philology, - stimulus detection Philosophy and - transfigurational activity Physiology of the

„Dionysian” „double metaphorization”

Nietzsche signs the Ecce Homo as:

'Dionysus versus the Crucified.' 4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo 4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo 1. - the new prefaces of the re- edited older works, published between 1886- 1887; - Nietzsche's newer works between 1883-1889 4. The Genealogy of Ecce Homo 1. - the new prefaces of the re- edited older works, published between 1886- 1887; - Nietzsche's newer works between 1883-1889

2. - Nietzsche's letters written between 1886 and 1889 4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces 4.1. A New Face

Made of New 1886-87: second editions, and new prefaces to Prefaces - The Birth of Tragedy - Human, All-Too-Human - Daybreak - The Gay Science 4.1. A New Face

Made of New 1886-87: second editions, and new prefaces to Prefaces - The Birth of Tragedy - Human, All-Too-Human - Daybreak - The Gay Science

- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-85); Beyond Good and Evil (1886); On the Genealogy of Morality (1887); The Case of Wagner (1888); Twilight of the Idols (1888); The Antichrist (1888); Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888) 4.1. A New Face

Made of New ...the whole Nietzschean philosophical oeuvre’s Prefaces narrative structure is established by the Nietzschean inshights represented by the works written between 1886 and 1889. 4.1. A New Face

Made of New ...the whole Nietzschean philosophical oeuvre’s Prefaces narrative structure is established by the Nietzschean inshights represented by the works written between 1886 and 1889.

...only three years’ textual work puts into a narrative frame the whole oeuvre, which was originally created during two decades. 4.1. A New Face Made of New Prefaces 4.2. Letters to Readers – Letter to a Danish friend 4.2. Letters to Readers – Letter to a Danish friend

Georg Brandes, 1842-1927 5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse 5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse The Ecce Homo breaks away from the - Saint Augustinian autobiographical tradition 5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse The Ecce Homo breaks away from the - Saint Augustinian autobiographical tradition - Rousseauean 'apologetical' narrative 5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse The Ecce Homo

- applying the thought of eternal recurrence 5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse The Ecce Homo

- applying the thought of eternal recurrence

- says 'yes' its author's altered past 5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather individual errors; the individual itself is an error. […] To stop feeling oneself as such a fantastic ego! To learn gradually to throw away the supposed individual! To discover the errors of the ego! [...] Beyond "me" and "you"! To feel cosmically.' (Nietzsche, 9, 441-2) 'I am every name in history.' Nietzsche

5. From the Linear Chronology to the Cyclical Sense of Time: to Feel Cosmically and to Collapse 'In truth there are no individual truths, but rather individual errors; the individual itself is an error. […] To stop feeling oneself as such a fantastic ego! To learn gradually to throw away the supposed individual! To discover the errors of the ego! [...] Beyond "me" and "you"! To feel cosmically.' (Nietzsche, 9, 441-2) 6. The Case of the Augmented Level: Nietzsche's Travel to his Past Narrative Framework model 6. The Case of the Augmented Level: Nietzsche's Travel to his Past Narrative Framework model 6. The Case of the Augmented Level: Nietzsche's Travel to his Past Stack model 6. The Case of the Augmented Level: Nietzsche's Travel to his Past Nietzsche's double aim:

6. The Case of the Augmented Level: Nietzsche's Travel to his Past Nietzsche's double aim: to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects 6. The Case of of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he the Augmented developed later Level: Nietzsche's Travel to his Past Nietzsche's double aim: to make his 'posthumus readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects 6. The Case of of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he the Augmented developed later Level:

- to present his whole Nietzsche's oeuvre as an exceptionally well- Travel to his organized project Past Nietzsche's double aim: to make his 'posthumus Solution: readers'

- to interpret his earlier works from the aspects 6. The Case of of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he the Augmented developed later Level:

- to present his whole Nietzsche's oeuvre as an exceptionally well- Travel to his organized project Past Nietzsche's double aim: to make his 'posthumus Solution: to build up a new metanarrative - include readers' subsequently written prefaces into the new editions and modify the earlier texts and their structure - to interpret his earlier works from the aspects 6. The Case of of his complex Dionysian philosophy, which he the Augmented developed later Level:

- to present his whole Nietzsche's oeuvre as an exceptionally well- Travel to his organized project Past Thank you very much for your attention!

All Nietzsche-montages used in this presentation are from Sándor Vály's (Helsinki) 'After Nietzschean Narratives' series, except on the slides nr. 37-39. which is the work of Giuliano Cocco.