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Drochon sides with the splitters, which might seem odd in a book whose originality is derived substantially from analysing unpublished works. These two elements are essential because high culture requires surplus resources and pathos of distance. Overall, this chapter feels somewhat cursory, given the ambitions of these claims and the sizeable body of literature that exists on these concepts. This is therefore the essential aspect of any politics worthy of being called Nietzschean. Secondly, Nietzsche assumes the role of the philosopher-legislator p.
But this is a complex claim, requiring more careful consideration.
Everything about Socrates is exaggerated, buffo, a caricature; everything is at the same time concealed, ulterior, underground. I want to understand what idiosyncrasy begot that Socratic idea that reason and virtue equal happiness — that most bizarre of all equations which is, moreover, opposed to every instinct of the earlier Greeks.
What really happened there? Above all, a noble taste is vanquished; with dialectics the plebs come to the top.
Before Socrates, argumentative conversation was repudiated in good society: it was considered bad manners, compromising. The young were warned against it. Furthermore, any presentation of one's motives was distrusted. Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly.
What must first be proved is worth little. Wherever authority still forms part of good bearing, where one does not give reasons but commands, the logician is a kind of buffoon: one laughs at him, one does not take him seriously. Socrates was the buffoon who got himself taken seriously: what really happened there? One knows that one arouses mistrust with it, that it is not very persuasive. Nothing is easier to nullify than a logical argument: the tedium of long speeches proves this. It is a kind of self-defense for those who no longer have other weapons.
Unless one has to insist on what is already one's right, there is no use for it.
The Jews were argumentative for that reason; Reynard the Fox also — and Socrates too? Of plebeian ressentiment? Does he, as one oppressed, enjoy his own ferocity in the knife thrusts of his argument?
Does he avenge himself on the noble audience he fascinates? As a dialectician, he holds a merciless tool in his hand; he can become a tyrant by means of it; he compromises those he conquers. The dialectician leaves it to his opponent to prove that he is not an idiot: he enrages and neutralizes his opponent at the same time. The dialectician renders the intellect of his opponent powerless. Indeed, in Socrates, is dialectic only a form of revenge? That he discovered a new kind of contest, that he became its first fencing master for the noble circles of Athens, is one point.
Recorded , Albany Music, CD I felt as if I ought to join in the singing; it really seemed to me like the jubilant song of angels in the midst of whose loud singing Jesus Christ ascends heavenward. I immediately made the decision in earnest to compose something similar.
Right after church, I thus set to work and, in a childlike way, delighted over the sound of every new chord that I struck. But while I never stopped working on it over the years, I still gained a great deal from it, since I learned to read music a little better through the acquisition of tone-structure. So lach doch mal , Versuch einer Selbstkritik , Tristan und Isolde , Isoldes Liebestod excerpt , — Ermanarich , symphonic poem, Your Manfred-Meditation is the most extreme form of far-fetched extravagance, the most dreadful and anti-musical that I have seen on music paper in a long time.
Benders and Ottermann , trans. Michael Schwab. Nietzsche vol. Parsifal, Prelude excerpt , — Das zerbrochene Ringlein , Text: Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. Parsifal , Act 3 excerpt, final section , Gebet an das Leben.
Music: Friedrich Nietzsche, Piano Sonata in D Minor, op. Music: Ludwig van Beethoven.
Daniel Barenboim, piano, live recording, Berlin, Ecce Homo , Unless otherwise indicated all recordings were performed by Paulo de Assis piano and Valentin Gloor voice. Piano: Bechstein Recording master: Juan Parra C. Michael Schwab a, b, c and Paulo de Assis a.
The pianist, now much closer to the audience, plays the piano part to the monodrama Das zerbrochene Ringlein. There are two screens between which the piano has been moved. A contact microphone, placed inside the piano, captures its sounds and progressively transforms them, adding new layers and increasingly taking over acoustically. At some point the live electronics will be so massive and loud that the pianist leaves the stage. Ultimately the distorted sound will be unbearable to the audience leading to a sudden stop.
End of the performance. Progressively moving down from extremely high frequencies to the sounding frequencies of Melodiefragment , they lead to the live performance of this short melodic fragment, composed when Nietzsche was ten years old. A web search is made in real time and projected on screen and through the loudspeakers, making audible and visible today with different means and media what affected the young Nietzsche in What is being mediated?
Where is Nietzsche?
Nietzsche had played it by , at the age of sixteen. We reach the middle of the performance. All lights off. In the darkness the pianist moves the piano further toward the next position Das zerbrochene Ringlein. All lights on. Onstage everything is frozen. Nothing moves.
Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt distancing effect. Hold on as long as possible! Each reiteration subtracts more and more elements of the musical material. One can identify a double movement on the part of Nietzsche toward Wagner: a moment of attraction, and, later on, of repulsion. The phase of attraction develops between and , while the estrangement begins in , a time when Nietzsche was working on his Untimely Meditations. From a biographical perspective this is also the moment when Nietzsche ultimately abandons any musical intention of being a composer.
Nietzsche 5 : The Fragmentary was prepared specifically for submission to Ruukku and represents a development from Nietzsche 1 and Nietzsche 2 , which did not discuss the fragmentary.
Most recordings were specifically realised for this submission. Across the different presentations of Nietzsche , the structural role of chronology has been debated. While this order is structurally important, at the same time, later developments shape and reshape earlier ones, and vice versa. One fundamental aspect of Nietzsche 5 : The Fragmentary is precisely to focus attention on Nietzsche-the-composer. When thinking about music, Nietzsche thinks not only about the music of other composers such as Wagner, Schumann, or Bizet — his discourse is impinged by his own interior reflection on his own musical instincts and his own musical works.