File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9811, message 115


Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 14:18:05 -0600
From: Dan Dzenkowski <djdzenko-AT-students.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: Death of God and aftermath


At 06:14 PM 11/5/98 -0500, Lambda C wrote:

I don't have the time right now to reply to your letter in its entirety, nor
do I think I will.  There is still more to be thought out in my head on this
subject.

>PS - By the way, Nietzsche was unable to provide a scientific foundation
>for his doctrine/theory.  But that does not mean that one _cannot_ be
>provided, even if no one has succeeded in actually doing so, not at
>least as far as is publicly known.

        I think that there will never be a scientific foundation for his
philosophy, if it is even a philosophy.  Nietzsche was a great psychologist
who came up with some incredible mental theories on gaining a superabundance
of life, mainly reversing the trend towards decadence.   How that could have
a scientific foundation, (objective?) I am not sure.

>PS - And also by the way, it is in the reversion from science to art
>that Heidegger most definitely loses his thread - in parallel to Jarry
>who reproached anarchy for reverting from art to science.  And this
>critique of an artistic paragon has not even commenced, even if Deleuze
>at least posed the question - "Might one not be able to say that
>Heidegger saw in the national-socialist machine a passage towards art?" 
>For, in this respect, we have little compunction in admitting that it is
>not philosophy which will carry out this critique but, precisely as
>Nietzsche envisaged it, science will, another science, a joyful one. 
>And in this regard it is not just D&G who were mistaken, but a whole
>century of philosophy and science.

I have only read a little Deleuze, having just discovered him a few months
ago, can you suggest any books?  Also I have read little Heidegger, so I am
not going to understand many references to him.

A pleasure as always.

Dan



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