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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

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