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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
“MAN IS A ROPE, TIDE BETWEEN BEAST AND SUPERMAN -- A ROPE OVER AN ABYSS” ~ Nietzsche

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INFLUENCE OF THE ARTS

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Nietzsche exerted a widespread influen e on creative artists. The internationally acclaimed playwright August Strindberg and Luigi Pirandello came noticeably under that influence. Bernard Shaw called one of his best plays ‘Kan and Superman’ (1905), and said of himself later: “My reputation has been gained by my persistent struggle to force the public to reconsider its morals.” He observed appreciatively that the whole of Nietzsche was expressed in three lines that Shakespeare puts into mouth of Richard III :

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. Our strong arms be out conscience, swords our law!”

The leading poet of English of the period, W. B. Yeats, shifted direction in his own poetic development in response to his reading of Nietzsche. Among German poets Rainer Maria Rilke and Stefan George were influenced by Nietzsche, as were Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse among novelists. As for French writers, the names range from Andre Gide and Andre Malraux to Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. In the light of all this it can confidently be claimed for Nietzsche that he had more influence on European writers of the front rank than any other philosophers after Karl Marx -- if indeed Marx can be satisfactorily thought of as a philosopher. ~ Page 178
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Nietzsche saw his position in Europe as akin to that of the Buddha in India. He claimed to stand at the end of two millennia of European delusions, when philosophers, no less than ordinary people, had exalted an imaginary other world at the expense of their life on earth. As he saw it, Europeans have lost the art of living in the world without positing life in the eternal as good and life on earth as evil, without demonizing passions and instincts and exalting abstract knowledge, without, in fact, making any moral judgments at all. They were far from living as naturally as he thought the ancient Greeks had once lived, in the world of endless change and strife that Hisod and Heraclitus had celebrated. ~ page 114

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