NICHOLAS THURSTON Historia Abscondita An Index of Joy Compiled from Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘The Gay Science’ Translated by Walter Kaufmann PUBLISHED IN 2007 BY InformationasMaterial HISTORIA ABSCONDITA1 (An Index of Joy) BY Nicholas Thurston FIRST EDITION YORK 2007 1 Concealed, secret, or unknown history. What good is a book AN INDEX OF JOY Every great human being exerts a retroactive force: for his sake all of history is placed in the balance again, and a thousand secrets of the past crawl out of their hiding places—into his sunshine. There is no way of telling what may yet become part of history. Perhaps the past is still essentially undiscovered! So many retroactive forces are still needed! altruism, Americans, Abbruch, Zerstörung, Untergang, amor fati, Umsturz, amor intellectualis dei, accidens, amour-plaisir, accidents, amour-vanité, actions, anaesthetics, effect of, anarchists, actors, Andrade, E. N. daC., animals, mercy for, animals adaptability, and men, Aeschylus, aesthetics, anthem, German national, affirmation and renunciation, anthropomorphisms, age, anti-idealism, anti-Semitism, of founda- tions, Antony, Mark, agreement, law of, An-und Für-sich’s, air, virile, aphorisms, Ajax, Apollinian art, albatross, Apollo, Albigensian Crusade, appearance, Alcaeus, good will to, alcohol, applause, Alfieri, Count Vittorio, appropriation, Allah, Arabia, alpha and omega, Ararat, 1 2 inde X Archilochus, Bahnsen, Julius, architects, social, Baldwin, James Mark, architecture, Barnes, Hazel, Ariston of Chios, Bastille, Aristotle, Batz, Philipp, Armida, Baubo, Armut des Reichen, Baumgarten, Eduard, Arnaut, Daniel, Bayreuth, art, beauty and ugliness, Beethoven, Ludwig van, and nature, Apollinian, Dionysian, being, in Schopenhauer, Greek, monological, and becoming, l’art pour l’art, bekannt and erkannt, Artbegriffe, belief in unbelief, artists, believers, Bellini, Vincenzo, Benares, benefactors, art for artists only, benevolence, German, Bernoulli, Carl Albrecht, asceticism, Beroaldo, Filippo, Asclepius, Bertran de Born, Asians, best, everything turning out for Assaua, the, atavisms, of a people and its Beweis, mores, Beyle, Henri, atheism, scientific, Bible (see also Old Testament and Athenians, New Testament), St. Augustine, King James, Luther’s Augustus, Emperor, translation of, Ausserordentliche, das, Binion, Rudolph, authors, autonomy, Bismarck, Otto von, avarice, body, Avesta, bold, being, away, looking, books, Nietzsche’s, boredom, born, late, Bosheit, Babylonian exile, bourgeois envy of nobility, bad, brevity, inde X 3 Brinton, Crane, Brutus, Buddha, Buddhism, church, concept of the, Cinna, Burckhardt, cities, Butler, Samuel, civilization, present day, class, lower, spiritual middle, Claude Lorraine, cleanliness, intellectual, Caesar, Cagliostro, cogito, Callimachus, colonialism, cannibalism, Columbus, Carlyle, Thomas, Catholicism, comfortableness, contempt for, Cato, religion of, Caucasus, commanding, cause and effect, communication, capacity and need for, causes, serving, community, preservation of, celibacy, sense of, Cerberus, companies, bubble, certainty, comprehension, desire for, conceptual frameworks, alternate, Chamfort, Sébastien Roch Nicolas, Condillac, Etienne de, confession, chance, conscience, change, capacity for, chaos, bad, character, European, magnificent, good, chauvinism, cheerfulness, intellectual, chemistry, party, childlikeness, scientific, children, consciousness, China, chinoiserie, conservatives, Christianity, contemplative nature, contempt, for man, contradiction, 4 inde X convalescence, deeds, good, convictions, defeat, fear of, ultimate, Delphi, Corneille, Pierre, Delphinorum, in usum, corruption, democracy, courage, demon, deprivations that philosophize, court, culture, style, and language Descartes, René, of, description, courtesy, destruction, desire for, creating oneself, determinism, creative power, development, crimen laesae majestatis divinae, dialectic, diet, criticism, dignity, human, Cromwell, Oliver, dignity and vulgarity, crowd, Dionysian perspective, cruelty, and Dionysus, malice, Dionysus Dithyrambs, cults, orgiastic, diplomats, culture, discipleship, cultures, barbarian and higher, disciplina voluntatis, industrial and military, dissatisfaction, feminine and mas- culine types of, distress, Dallas, E.S., dogma, Damon, dreams, dance, duties, unconditional, duty, Dante Alighieri, Darwin, Charles, Darwinism, Dasein, eagle, Dauphin, Echo, dawn, Eckhart, Master, day, ordering the, education, death, effectiveness, perspective of, egoism, Schopenhauer’s view of, will to, electricity, atmospheric, “decay, moral,” Eleatics, deception, eloquence, de-deification of nature and of the embarrassment, world, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, inde X 5 Empedocles, exhaustion, endings, existence, enemies, open, secret, worthy, enlightenment, as an aesthetic phenomenon, en soi, discontent with, entrepreneurs, justification of, purpose of, Entsagende, der, struggle for, unin- Entstehung, terpreted, value of, envy, Epictetus, existentialism, German, Epicureans, Epicurus, expedience, experience, and reading, epistemology, experiences, religious and mystical, equality, Erasmus, Desiderius, experiment, life as, Erkennen, experimentalism, Nietzsche’s, Erleichterung, Eros, experts, errors, metaphysical, neces- explanation, sary, useful or basic, explanations, mystical, esprit, French, faith, Southern, essence, est res magna tacere, and cruelty, ethics, Nietzsche’s, in eternal satisfaction, in ethos, oneself, role faith, etymology, Europe, Europeans, faithfulness, Falschmünzerei, fame, famous men, Southern, familiarity and knowledge, European, good, fanaticism, fascists (see also Nazis), events, interpreting and arranging, fatalism, evil (see also good and evil), fate, love of, father, son, grandfather, exception and the rule, the, 6 inde X fatherland, function, fulfilling a, Faust, future, fear, of oneself, for children of the, ourselves, instinct of, future of man, of senses, fear, age of, fearlessness, Fehlschluss, Fehlschuss, Feindin, feminine character and contempla- gai saber, tive type, gaia sciensa, fermata, garrulousness of writers, Fernste, Gast, Peter, ferocia animi, festivals, art of, gay, Feuerbach, Ludwig, Gay Liberation Front, Fischer, Walther, gay science, fit secundum regulam, Flaubert, Gustave, Foissac, Pierre, gaya scienza, folly, pleasure in, Geist Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de, Geistes, Vierschrötigen des, geistigen Arbeit, alle Menschen fool, the, der, footbridge, Geistlosigkeit, forgetting, Gemeinschaft, Förster, Bernhard, generations, conservative, Förster-Nietzsche, Elisabeth, genius, Schopenhauer’s view of, foundations, age of, Genoa, Frauen, See also women. German Empire, Frauenstädt, Julius, German language, Frauenzimmer, Germans, freedom, above things, Germans and Jews, of thought, spiritual un-, of the will, Gesellschaft, freedom of great souls, Gewissen, freedom, political, Freigeisterei, Gide, André, Freud, Sigmund, Gil Blas, Gilman, William H., Friedrich III, Glauben, friendship, Gluck, Christoph Willibald, goals, great, inde X 7 God, Greek taste, Grillen, growth, conditions of, Gründerjahre; Gründungen, Zeita- lter der, guilds, childlikeness of, Christian, guilt, conditions for, gurus, Indian, death of, Dionysian, elect of, habits, shadow of, unknown, Hades, Hafiz, Shams ud-din Mohammed, “God is dead” movement, gods, Hagenbach, Eduard, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Halbes, etwas, Hamlet, Hanswurst, happiness, gold rush, good, the general, the new, good and bad, good and evil, Chinese, beyond, Hartmann, Eduard von, hatred, of man, “good man”, Hautlichkeit, goodnaturedness, health, Gospels, a normal health, Graces, the great, Graeculus histrio, heathen, grammar, Hebrew, gratitude, of hedonism, a convalescent, triumphant, Hegel, G.W.F., gravity, speci- Heidegger, Martin, fic, Heine, Heinrich, great-souled man, freedom of, Heiterkeit, greatness, Helvetius, and disturbance, and Heraclitus, lack of compassion, herd, herd men, Greeks, 8 inde X heresy, hunger (see superabundance and hero, hunger) Hürlimann, Martin, Herrinnen der Herren, hurting others, Herrnhut, hypertrophy of a single viewpoint, Herrschafts-Gebilde, Herzens-Austausch, allgemeinen blumichten, Hesse, Hermann, hic niger est, idea, Hingabe, Hingebung, idealists, Hintergründe, Hinzu-lügner, ideas, modern, historia abscondita, idiot, historical sense, of an idolaters, state, age, of this age, ignorance, history, imitation, “immoralism,” Nietzsche’s, homeless, immortality, Homer, happiness of, imperative, categorical, homosexuality, honesty, imperfection in poetry, the attrac- tion of, German, imperium Romanum, honor, impulses, human, of God, in hatred, “Incipit tragoedia,” Horace, Indian, American, houses, indignation, anarchism of, Hubbard, Stanley, individual, human beings, active, badly turned out, best, and society, Scho- communication among, fu- penhauer’s denial of the, ture, good, great, individuation, principle of, higher, preparatory, Individuum, verurteilt zum, rare, well industriousness, turned out, who create inertia, themselves, inference, backward, humaneness, humanity, ancient, inferences, logical, love of, infinity, Hume, David, influence, inde X 9 insight, tragic, Kant, Immanuel, instinct, com- mon, herd, Keller, Gottfried, of weakness, Kleinstaaterei, intelligere, Knecht, Josef, interpretation, knowledge, intoxication, Iphigenia, iron, wooden, Islam, and appearance, Epicurean bent for, love of, James, William, men of, origin of, Januarius, Sanctus, Jeder ist sich selber der Fernste, Kraft, jedes Handwerk zieht