Nietzsche

[jbor]

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>From: lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de (Lorentzen / Nicklaus)
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>    perhaps nietzsche's late fragments are not so significant. perhaps he had
>    already written down everything important before. perhaps not.

Thanks for the tips. I've generally trusted Kaufmann's translations over
others I've looked at, but haven't looked at _The Will to Power_ much at all
if only for the fact that there's no certainty about what Nietzsche himself
was going to do with any of it, how he was going to go about "packaging" it,
if at all. I do suspect that there are a number of passages in at least some
of the published Nachlass editions that contradict what Nietzsche has to say
elsewhere. And, as you point out, it was the stuff in here which was
"Nazified" to begin with, and which (along with a few decontextualised bits
and pieces from elsewhere about the Ubermensch and the glorious German
culture) which the Nazis appropriated to their own ends later on.

best


~~~
    "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
     any piece of machinery, was the real and major
     result of the Industrial Revolution - had been
     extended to include the Manhattan Project, the
     German long-range rocket program and the death
     camps, such as Auschwitz.It has taken no major
     gift of prophecy to see how these three curves
      of development might plausibly converge, and
                before too long. ... "
                                 (T. Pynchon, 1984)
                                                    ~~~