File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 109


From: "Burton, Walter" <WBurton-AT-PIPESTREAM.COM>
Subject: RE: Smirking at Nihilism
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 06:11:15 -0500


Good show!


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com
[mailto:callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 9:48 PM
> To: nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: Smirking at Nihilism
>
>
> Friedrick Haines wrote:
>
> >[...]I thought I'd take this opportunity to open a big can of worms.
> >Now mind you, I ain't no expert, but I have read a lot of Nietzsche's
books
> >and I've read a lot of books about Nietzsche.  I've never seen where 
> Nietzsche
> >says anything that would brand him as a Nihilist; to the contrary,
I've only
> >seen where he castigates the "metaphysicians" and religions
(especially
> >Christianity as embodied by "The Church") for their nihilism, by
which they
> >deny life and stigmatize it with "sin" in favor of death or else some
> >pipedream about what is supposed to replace this world after its
destruction.
> >But I see everywhere people burning "Nihilist" into Nietzsche's
presumptively
> >damned flesh.  Would someone please explain to me how it is that
Nietzsche
> >(who, as I said, I've only seen anti-nihilistic statements from) gets
turned
> >into a "Nihilist" by the advocates of the metaphysicians and
religions who
> >themselves have a long way to go to absolve themselves of that taint 
> (at least
> >insofar as I may be a Judge)?
>
> "_On the genesis of the nihilist._ -- It is only late that one musters
the
> courage for what one really knows. That I have hitherto been a
> thorough-going nihilist, I have admitted to myself only recently: the
energy
> and radicalism with which I advanced as a nihilist deceived me about
this
> basic fact. When one moves toward a goal it seems impossible that
> 'goal-lessness as such' is the principle of our faith." (WP #25)
>
> One does not overcome Nihilism (the Big N) by denying it, but only by
> affirming it (as someone else said earlier). All resistance to the
mass is
> fatal.
>
> Eubie the Mensch
>
>
>
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