Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:15:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Michal Klincewicz <michal-AT-priest.com> Subject: Nietzshe and Goethe I am reading Faust for the first time. What strikes me are the similarities (and explicit differences) between G. and Nietzsche. Faust is not the Ubermensch. He is a man lost in a world he does not understand and be understood by in return. Nonetheless, there are stylistic parallels to Zarathustra and some passages made me cringe--they wre so obviously influential on N. The most striking are the references to 'ressentment', Christian morality of pity, and decadence. But,In G. I see a romantic man hung up on the classics. I am unraveling a very sensitive and brilliant mind, but, I do not see anything that might point to why N. belived this man to me more than all-too-human. I would appreciate some commentary and a pointer to an adequate secondary source an their relationship; philosophical and otherwise. Many thanks in advance, -m ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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