GRGR(5) War and sex and Nietzshe (a bit off topic)

[Kevin Won]

yea, Liz compiled _Will to Power_, but the funny thing about the text is how it appears to fulfill Nietzsche's self-imposed destiny as written in _Ecce Home_ and elsewhere.  

Nietzsche wrote for years about some magnum opus with the tentative name _Will to Power_.  He even produced some rough sketches for the project.  He talked about it with friends off and on over the years.  What became the eventual published text bearing that name were quite possibly notes for that project.  

Now, the Nietzsche enigma is ripe with fools gold when one looks for the "truth" of his philosophy, what "he really means."  But, that said, one hallmark thread of his philosophy is this *erasure* of "truth", its exposure as a power-pretext, its metaphoric nature.  

It would be one hell of a contradiction for a man who bases his world view on the absence of stability to suddenly propose and write his "last word" which would encapsulate his entire philosophy.  Well, we know for a *fact* that he did indeed propose some magnum opus, but what we have instead of this completed project is a book with the title he proposed for this magnum, but the contents are arranged by his overtly Nazi propagandist sister, with no structure, a hodge-podge of scribbles, incoherence and babbles.  Many of the notes are dismissed outright as the products of an unsound mind, and several more are suspect for the same reasons. Nietzsche could not of planned such a perfect conclusion or written a more perfect all-encompassing final work exactly because the use of his texts to his sisters political/power ends, her bending and shaping of "truth" only further serve his *erasure*:  not only is it written, it is demonstrated.  Nietzsche puts himself under erasure.  

There are certain aspects of _GR_ that I read as mirroring of this.    Particularly the contesting and balancing (canceling each other out maybe) epistimologies.  Take for example the power/knowledge game of Pointsman and Pudding.  Pointsman manipulates Pudding with Katjie in order to keep his funding going for his Pavlovian experiments, experiments used to "prove" the holy Pavlovian text.

>>>Kai wrote:

I hope you know that Nietzsche never wrote a book called "Der Wille zur Macht". 
It is a 'nazified' compilation by his stupid sister. To read the included 
aphorisms in an uncorrupted version you have to check out the critical study 
edition of Colli/Montinari.
                                       Yours, Kai

>>> Lorentzen / Nicklaus <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> 07/02 2:00 AM >>>
Kevin Won schrieb:
> The war/sex antinomy/marriage reminds me of the Nietzsche quote from _Will to
>  Power_