From: "Marilynn Lawrence" <pronoia-AT-nni.com>
Subject: Re: the teaching profession
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 12:52:04 -0400


Hi,

I think his work on Diogenes Laertius was the real reason for his
appointment.  Birth of Tragedy hurt his career and alienated many prominent
classicists/philologists who previously supported his work.

M

----- Original Message -----
From: "henry" <healanthenry-AT-aol.com>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:20 PM
Subject: RE: the teaching profession


> well stated, rene, but also, as i recall, burckhardt was "nietzsche's
> husserl" in fact was responsible for N's appointment at basel with the
> acceptance of Birth of Tragedy as sub for a 'real' dissertation...
>
> Bakker, R.B.M. de wrote on 6/13/04, 11:39 AM:
>
>  >
>  >
>  >     -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>  >     Van: owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU namens
>  > amscult-AT-drake.edu
>  >     Verzonden: za 6/12/2004 16:43
>  >     Aan: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU; henry
>  >     CC:
>  >     Onderwerp: Re: the teaching profession
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     Dea>
>  >     > allen scult wrote on 6/11/04, 5:30 PM:
>  >     >
>  >     >  > I'm wondering what we should make of Nietzsche's last words
>  > (in the
>  >     >  > note to Burckart) before he left us: "Dear Professor, all
things
>  >     >  > considered, I would rather be a professor at Basel, than God."
>  >     >  >
>  >     >  > Of course it's funny and gets funnier the more you think
>  > about it,
>  >     >  > but maybe there IS a way to take it (the Nietzschianan
>  > admonition to
>  >     >  > the contrary notwithstanding), that really captures its
>  > significance.
>  >     >  >
>  >     >  > Thanking you in advance, I am,
>  >     >  >
>  >     >  > Allen
>  >
>  >
>  >     Allen,
>  >
>  >     When Burckhardt and Nietzsche were colleages, they had private
>  > conversations.
>  >
>  >     Nietzsche later testified that it had been Burchardt who had
>  > conferred to him a
>  >
>  >     sense for world history.  To Nietzsche's books he had reacted
>  > favoribly till
>  >
>  >     Also sprach Zarathustra. They met only once more after this book.
>  > At the end
>  >
>  >     of a cautious talk, Burckhardt suggested ironically to Nietzsche,
>  > that he maybe
>  >
>  >     could try a drama now, or a novel.
>  >
>  >     When Nietzsche got mad (Dionysos), he also wrote, that now he,
>  > Burckhardt,
>  >
>  >     was the wisest man on earth.
>  >
>  >     So when Nietzsche writes that he rather would have remained a
>  > professor, he merely
>  >
>  >     indicates that what had happened with him, was not a matter of
>  > fun. Not even of choice.
>  >
>  >     regards
>  >
>  >     rene
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >     .
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
>
>
>      --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---



     --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---