From: Sam Binkley <binkley-AT-echonyc.com> Subject: Re: Is Nietzsche obsolete? Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:27:59 -0400 (EDT) Nietzsche? Obsolete? How can this question be asked without completely overlooking the real content of his work. What then might determine the terms of obsolescence? machines become obsolete as better ones are invented, "better" being the given term of a specific task at hand. Has someone devised a more economical means for describing the death of god, given the available resources allowed for doing so? This kind of thinking seems grossly modernist, and assumes the necessary development that considers thinker after thinker in tidy linear trajectories... 8 track tapes are obsolete. Nietzsche, if nothing else, was "untimely", that is, he broke with his time not in a manner that worked in advance of his time (like a painter or musician or technological gadget is said to be 'ahead of its time') or made some appeal to nostalgia from a position of (classical) obsolescence to his time, but simply operated outside and against his time. Thus he was necessarily misrecognized by a time that had not evolved a faculty for comprehending his thought. I think this remains the case. sam --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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