Life Death by Jacques Derrida & Peggy Kamuf

Author:Jacques Derrida & Peggy Kamuf [Derrida, Jacques & Kamuf, Peggy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI000000 Philosophy / General
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

At the outset we should mention briefly the most important aspects of Nietzsche’s life, the origins of the plans and preliminary drafts, and the later publication of these materials after Nietzsche’s death.

In a Protestant pastor’s house in the year 1844 Nietzsche was born. As a student of classical philology in Leipzig in 1865 he came to know Schopenhauer’s major work, The World as Will and Representation. During his last semester in Leipzig (1868–69), in November, he came into personal contact with Richard Wagner. Apart from the world of the Greeks, which remained decisive for the whole of Nietzsche’s life, although in the last years of his wakeful thinking it had to yield some ground to the world of Rome, Schopenhauer and Wagner were the earliest intellectually determinative forces. In the spring of 1869, Nietzsche, not yet twenty-five years of age and not yet finished with his doctoral studies, received an appointment at Basel as associate professor of classical philology. There he came into amicable contact with Jacob Burckhardt and with the Church historian Franz Overbeck. The question as to whether or not a real friendship evolved between Nietzsche and Burckhardt has a significance that exceeds the merely biographical sphere, but discussion of it does not belong here. He also met [210] Bachofen, but their dealings with one another never went beyond reserved collegiality. Ten years later, in 1879, Nietzsche resigned his professorship. Another ten years later, in January, 1889, he suffered a total mental collapse, and on August 25, 1900, he died.

During the Basel years Nietzsche’s inner disengagement from Schopenhauer and Wagner came to completion. But only in the years 1880 to 1883 did Nietzsche find himself, that is to say, find himself as a thinker: he found his fundamental position within the totality of beings, and thereby the determinative source of his thought.14

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