Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 09:20:02 -0600 (CST)
From: Erik D Lindberg <edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: Nietzsche as Existentialist (was masks)


On Fri, 3 Nov 1995 MTP8462-AT-utarlg.uta.edu wrote:

> I can deny it because, for Nietzsche, existence does not precede essence.
> Essence and existence to not exist in a duality, rather they are
> fundamentally the same thing: whence the eternal return of the same...

Marty,

I liked this formulation.

> 
> Again, I must suggest reading Stambaugh's work on Nietzsche.             
> 
> The ZERO is the same within the "circle" of recurrence. And
> I agree, Nietzsche was not a nihilist, at least not in the sense
> that abounds in the fog that is our contemporary Neokantianism.
> 

But please explain what you mean about contemporary neo-Kantianism.  And 
whose?  Is this an institutional thing, you think?  Or a cultural.  If 
the latter, I would have to disagree.

Erik

 > Marty > 
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Erik D. Lindberg
Dept. of English and Comparative Lit.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI  53211
email: edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu



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