Title: Foucault, Nietzsche, Enlightenment: Some Historical Considerations
Abstract: A declaration of allegiance to the French Enlightenment marks a decisive turning point in Nietzsche's development.1 In 1878 the young professor of philology, who until then had made himself known, through The Birth of Tragedy (1872) and four Untimely Meditations (1873-1876), as a disciple of Schopenhauer and of Wagner, published a work entitled Human, All Too Human, with a motto from Descartes and a dedication to Voltaire. The attempt to situate this dramatic moment in Nietzsche's development as a whole encounters difficulties. On the one hand, Nietzsche's demonstrative repudiation of Schopenhauer and Wagner is comparable in important respects to Marx's break from Hegel and from Young Hegelianism in 1844-45. It is a break that defines Nietzsche's
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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