Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

Introduction6 Regarding this project and the manuscripts associated with it, see Nietzsche's lettersto Rohde, 21 November 1872, 7 December 1872, and 22 March 1873, as well as the editor'sintroduction to Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early1870's, ed. and trans. Daniel Breazeale (Atlantic Highlands, Nj, Humanities Press,1979) .7 16[10.] , 1876, rv/2: 385. Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from Nietzsche'spublished and unpublished writings are cited from Nietzsches Werke. KritischeGesamtausgabe, ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari (Berlin and New Yo rk, Walterde Gruyter, 1967ff.) Passages from his unpublished notes (Nachlass) are identified by'fragment' number (e.g., '16[10.] " date, and volume and page number (e.g., 'IV/2:385'). Unless otherwise identified, all translations are my own.8 See 19[330.] , Summer 1872-beginning of 1873, III/4: 10.6; 29[163-4] , Summer-Fall1873, III/4: 30.7-8; 30.[38] , Fall 1873-Winter 1873/4, m/4: 354-5; 32 [4] , beginning of1874-Spring 1874, III/4: 368-9; and 16[11], 1876, rv/2: 385. Regarding Nietzsche's various(and ever-changing) plans for a series of 'Untimely Meditations', see his letter toMalwida von Meysenbug, 25 October 1874, in which he states that the series will consistof thirteen 'Meditations' and that he hopes to finish the series in the next five years, andhis letter to Hans von Bulow, 2 January 1875 'I have put aside the next five years forworking out the remaining ten "Untimely Meditations".' Many different lists of the projectedseries of Unzeitgemiisse Betrachtungen are to be found in Nietzsche's Nachlass fromthis period. In English, see Breazeale, Philosophy and Truth, pp. 162-3 and Nietzsche,Unmodern Observations, trans. William Arrowsmith (New Haven and London, YaleUniversity Press, 1990.), pp. 321-2.9 See Nietzsche's claim in Ecce Homo, 'Why I Write Such Good Books', 'The 'UntimelyOnes', 2. In fact, as Walter Kaufmann points out in his translation of Ecce Homo, thisterm had been used earlier by Gustav Teichmul1er. See Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (with Onthe Genealogy of Morals) , trans. Walter Kaufmann (New Yo rk, Random House, 1967),p. 277.10. See Schaberg, Nietzsche Canon, pp. 32-5, and Krummel, Nietzsche und der deutscheGeist, pp. 17-23.11 For Wagner's private reaction to the second 'Meditation', see Cosima Wagner,Diaries, ed. Martin Gregor-Dillon and Dietrich Mack, trans. Geoffrey Skelton (New Yo rk,Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), vol. 1, p. 735.12 See Krummel, Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist, pp. 24-5 and Schaberg, Nietzsche Canon,pp. 37-4Q.13 Paul Deussen, Errinerungen an Friedrich Nietzsche (Leipzig, Brockhaus, 190.1), p: 38.For evidence from Nietzsche's own hand, see the manuscript 'Zu Schopenhauer', writtenin early Spring 1868, that is, just a few years after his first encounter withSchopenhauer's writings. In this early, unpublished text Nietzsche severely criticizesSchopenhauer's separation of the (unitary) will from its manifold appearances (representations)and challenges his interpretation of the latter as the transcendent ground ofthe former (see Friihe Schriften, Band 3, pp. 352-61; trans. in Crawford, Beginnings ofNietzsche's Theory of Language, pp. 226-38) . This same criticism recurs in later notebookentries from the Basel period, including: 7[161-72] , end of 187o.-April 1871, m/3:20.9-14; 5[77-81], September 187o.-January 1871, m/3: 114-19; and 12[1], Spring1871, 111/3: 380.-1. See too Nietzsche's letter to Deussen, October/November 1867, inwhich he declines to spell out his objections to Schopenhauer's philosophy on thegrounds that 'Weltanschauungen are neither created nor destroyed by means of logic.'For a detailed discussion of Nietzsche's early criticism of Schopenhauer, see SandroBarbera, 'Ein Sinn und unzahlige Hieroglyphen: Einige Motive von NietzschesAuseinandersetzung mit Schopenhauer in der Basler Zeit', in 'Centauren-Geburten ':xxxi