Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State by Nikos Kazantzakis

Author:Nikos Kazantzakis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2023-06-05T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

Translator’s Preface

1. See Peter Bien, “Kazantzakis’ Nietzscheanism,” Journal of Modern Literature 2 (1971-72): 245-266, for a close examination of Kazantzakis’ dissertation, project on Nietzsche, which he wrote while in Paris in 1910 and before he came under the partly countervailing influence of Bergson,

2. See O Friederikos Nitse en ti Filosofia tou Dikaiou kai tis Politeias, op. cit

Introduction

1. Peter Bien, Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 1989, p. ix.

2. Ibid.

3. Lewis Owens, “'Does This One Exist?' The Unveiled Abyss of Nikos Kazantzakis,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 16 (1998): 331-348.

4. Peter Bien, Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), p. ix.

5. Ibid.

6. Lewis Owens, “'Does This One Exist?' The Unveiled Abyss of Nikos Kazantzakis,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 16 (1998): 331-348.

7. More on the same theme in James Lea, Kazantzakis: The Politics of Salvation (University of Alabama Press, 1979), 63.

8. See Andreas Lou Salome, Friedrich Nietzsche in seinem Werke (Frankfurt: Insel, 2000).

9. The following biographical details are based on Dr. Patroklos Stavrou’s Preface to the recent edition of the authentic text of the dissertation: O Friederikos Nitse en ti Filosofia tou Dikaiou kai tis Politeias, edited by Patroklos Stavrou (Athens: Ekdoseis Kazantzaki, 1998).

10. For those interested in further details about the fate of Kazantzakis' dissertation on Nietzsche's political philosophy, I am citing a lengthy passage from Patroklos Stavrou's Preface to the recent edition of the text of the dissertation in Greek, O Friederikos Nitse en ti Filosofia tou Dikaiou kai tis Politeias, edited by Patroklos Stavrou (Athens: Ekdoseis Kazantzaki, 1998). The translation is mine

It's most likely that the dissertation was rejected, on account both of its subject matter and the revolutionary ideas of its author. It is uncertain whether it was even submitted in the first place, Demetres Xyritakes, practitioner of law from Irakleion who has researched and written on the subject, wonders why Kazantzakis keeps silence on this dissertation and never mentions it in the chapter on Nietzsche of his autobiographical Report to Greco. As plausible explanation he offers: “the unfair judgement of his teachers had caused bitter feelings”

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