Friedrich_Nietzsche - Untimely_Meditations_(Cambridge_Texts_in_the_History_of_Philosophy__1997)

Introduction25 Letter to Malwinda von Meysenbug, 25 October 1874.26Basically, what I was trying to do in these works was something altogether differentfrom psychology: an incomparable problem of education, a new conceptof self-discipline, self-defence to the point of hardness, a way toward greatness and world-historical tasks was seeking to find its first expression. Broadlyspeaking, I made use of two famous and even now altogether unspecifiedtypes, as one takes advantage of an opportunity, in order to communicatesomething, in order to avail oneself of a few more formulas, signs, and linguisticdevices.(Ecce Homo, 'Why I Write Such Good Books', 'The UntimelyOnes', 3).27 41 [2], August-September 1885, VI1/3: 404-5.28 See Nietzsche's letters to Georg Brandes, 19 February and 10 April 1888.29 Letter to Peter Gast, 21 April 1883.30 On the tide page of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the tide is followed by the words 'a bookfor everyone and no one'.31 Letter to Franz Overbeck, August 1884.32 Ecce Homo, 'Why I Write Such Good Books', 'The Untimely Ones', 3.xxxiii