Author
|
Topic: Ever heard of Nietzsche's sister? (Read 944 times) |
|
rhinoceros
Archon
Gender: 
Posts: 1318
Reputation: 8.40
Rate rhinoceros
My point is ...
  
|
 |
Ever heard of Nietzsche's sister?
« on: 2003-09-25 10:30:26 » |
 |
Ever heard of Nietzsche's little sister?
I found this in the London Review of Books
It wasn't him, it was her
Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n18/disk01_.html
<snip>
We more or less know about Nietzsche, but Elisabeth, the little sister and living embodiment of everything the mad philosopher disdained, who took control of her brother's thought, should not on any account be overlooked. Her life is a story of mediocrity triumphing over inspiration, meanness over excess, ressentiment over the Übermensch. Her transformation of her brother's work into a Nazi cookbook bears an uncanny resemblance to the rise of National Socialism itself in a chaotic Germany. After a lifetime of failing to keep up with her brother, she finally appropriated him, body and what was left of his mind
<snip>
|
|
|
|
|
athenonrex
Acolyte
Posts: 79
Reputation: 5.00
Rate athenonrex
you have been FnoRded, may the farce be with you..
|
|
Re: virus: Ever heard of Nietzsche's sister?
« Reply #1 on: 2003-09-26 16:33:43 » |
|
you mean....you'd never heard about Elizabeth Wagner-Nietzsche?
the will to power and her influence and tampering, as well as her
distorting it to be nothing but nazi propaganda...that's relatively
old news. and, sheez, if that's one of the things- i mean ignorance
of this fact- that had kept nietzsche and his philosophies more on the
outskirts of this forum...wow, i really would be shocked.
-athenonrex
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
#############################################
#~every villain is the hero of his own story~#
#############################################
%%%%%%%%%%%%%
--- "rhinoceros" <rhinoceros@freemail.gr> wrote:
Ever heard of Nietzsche's little sister?
I found this in the London Review of Books
It wasn't him, it was her
Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n18/disk01_.html
<snip>
We more or less know about Nietzsche, but Elisabeth, the little sister and living embodiment of everything the mad philosopher disdained, who took control of her brother's thought, should not on any account be overlooked. Her life is a story of mediocrity triumphing over inspiration, meanness over excess, ressentiment over the bermensch. Her transformation of her brother's work into a Nazi cookbook bears an uncanny resemblance to the rise of National Socialism itself in a chaotic Germany. After a lifetime of failing to keep up with her brother, she finally appropriated him, body and what was left of his mind
<snip>
----
This message was posted by rhinoceros to the Virus 2003 board on Church of Virus BBS.
<http://virus.lucifer.com/bbs/index.php?board=54;action=display;threadid=29316>
---
To unsubscribe from the Virus list go to <http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/virus-l>
_____________________________________________________________
--->Get your free email @godisdead.com
Made possible by Fade to Black Comedy Magazine
---
To unsubscribe from the Virus list go to <http://www.lucifer.com/cgi-bin/virus-l>
|
'Tis an Ill Wind that Blows No Minds...
this post is (k) Copyleft...all rights reversed.
|
|
|
rhinoceros
Archon
Gender:
Posts: 1318
Reputation: 8.40
Rate rhinoceros
My point is ...
|
|
Re:Ever heard of Nietzsche's sister?
« Reply #2 on: 2003-09-27 14:43:40 » |
|
[rhinoceros]
Ever heard of Nietzsche's little sister?
I found this in the London Review of Books
It wasn't him, it was her
Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n18/disk01_.html
[athenonrex]
you mean....you'd never heard about Elizabeth Wagner-Nietzsche?
the will to power and her influence and tampering, as well as her distorting it to be nothing but nazi propaganda...that's relatively old news. and, sheez, if that's one of the things- i mean ignorance of this fact- that had kept nietzsche and his philosophies more on the outskirts of this forum...wow, i really would be shocked.
[rhinoceros]
Nah, that was just me. In fact, I have often heard fellow virians talk about Nietzsche, but it is one of those things I have been unable to handle. They often say that you can't get what Nietzsche is about if you don't read it straight from the horse's mouth, but whenever I tried, either in my young days or now, i was soon bored because he did not seem to answer any questions I wanted to ask.
I even heard a suggestion once, that we make Nietzsche a virian saint, so I'll ask again the same question I asked at that time: Why? What is important with Nietzsche? What did he do? I can appreciate the literary value in this kind of texts, but is there something more which I am missing? Or is it beyond explanation and "either you get it, or not"?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
