Jensen - Nietzsche As a Scholar of Antiquity

Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity

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Nietzsche as a Scholar of Antiquity

Edited by Anthony K. Jensen and Helmut Heit

Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy

Actually Id much rather have been a Basel Professor than God.

Letter to Jacob Burckhardt, January 6, 1889

There are of course also Philologica by me; but that need not concern either of us anymore.

Letter to Georg Brandes, April 10, 1888

Anthony Jensen dedicates this volume to the memory of Robert Rethy and Steven K. Strange

Helmut Heit dedicates this volume to Joachim Mller-Warden

Contents

The conference out of which this volume grew was generously supported by the Volkswagen Foundation. Special thanks are due to the Technische Universitt Berlin for hosting and administering the event, and to the members of the Berliner Nietzsche Colloquium, especially to Lisa Heller.

The production of this volume has been supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and by Providence Colleges Philosophy Department and its Committee on Aid to Faculty Research. The editors are deeply grateful for their support.

We would like to thank the reviewers and editorial staff at Continuum-Bloomsbury, especially Rachel Eisenhauer, Colleen Coalter, Nick Fawcett, Kim Storry, Kim Muranyi and Camilla Erskine.

To Walter de Gruyter Press, especially Tiziana Ziesing, we express our gratitude for permission to reproduce the chapters by Jonathan Barnes (Nietzsche and Diogenes Laertius. In: Nietzsche-Studien 15 (1986), 1640), and Glenn Most and Thomas Fries. (Die Quellen von Nietzsches Rhetorik Vorlesung. In: Tilman Borsche, et al. [eds], 1994, Centauren-Geburten: Wissenschaft, Kunst, und Philosophie beim jungen Nietzsche. Berlin [De Gruyter], 1746). We would also like to thank the editorial team of Tilman Borsche for allowing us to translate and reproduce the Most and Fries chapter.

Special thanks are owed to Henry Albert, Laura Fatuzzo, Phillip Roth, and Ian Thomas Fleishman for their painstaking efforts at multi-lingual and multi-discipline translation; our gratitude, too, goes to Kelly Hudgins for her diligent assistance with formatting and editing, and to Axel Pichler for editorial advice, checking proofs, and compiling our index.