File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Jul.95, message 3


From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 19:39:26 -0400
Subject: Nietzsche as Psychologist 



Responding to msg by edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu (Erik D Lindberg) on Sat, 
1 Jul 11:57 AM

>Can someone he*lp me find a passage (I think from _The 
>Gay Science_) in which N. posits psychology as the 
>ultimate and most central subject of thought.  There is 
>one th at I specifically have in mind (does he call it 
>the "queen of the sciences"?) but similar passages will 
>be useful to me.


Stephen Ladd hit the mark(s) on your query, but may I query in 
turn whether Nietzsche did not see philology as the tool for 
grappling with the psychopathology of philosophy, and thereby 
precurse some of more recent investigations of the linguistic 
turn Rorty, and those of the deconstructivist bent, pursue.


Was not his "queen of sciences" somewhat ironic -- along with 
The Gay Science -- a disdainful poking at the kingly-regal 
conceit of the philosophes of his day? Or have I succumbed to 
misapplication of recent conceits of linguistic noodling of 
philosophical centrality?


JY


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