File spoon-archives/bataille.archive/bataille_1999/bataille.9908, message 59


Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 03:27:46 -0700
From: "J. Foster" <borealis-AT-mail.wellsgray.net>
Subject: Re: silence


Well if Nietzsche set out to 'transvaluate all values' it appears that he
may have succeeded. Of course doing that today would require several
life-times. One might ask: if there are transvalues, then there are
trans-sciences, trans-facts, and there are trans-realities. At least one
scientist, Alvin Weinberg, PhD, claims that there is a 'transcience'. Alvin
Weinberg was recently and for quite a few years in charge of the Brookhaven
National Laboratory located on Long Island, New York, the research facility
that was shut down due to breaches in safety, and the leaking of high level
radiation from the site into groundwater and into the local environment.
Science and human values can combine to create trans-sciences. At first
glance it sound like a possibility to restructure the world, make it wobble
less on it's own axis, just change peoples minds.  

Marsha,

I agree that Nietzsche was not an anti-semite and that he scorned the
anti-semites for their misunderstanding and intolerances. 

"An anti-Semite is certainly not any more decent because he lies as a matter
of principle." Neitzsche

In my copy of the "Anti-Christ" the editor has this to say: 

"Like Nietzsche's first essay, The Birth of Tragedy, The Antichrist is
unscholarly and so full of faults that only a pendant could wish to
catalogue them." 

Walter Kaufman, Princeton University_ In the Portable Nietzsche







   

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