Holub Robert C. - Nietzsche in the nineteenth century: social questions and philosophical interventions

Nietzsche
in the
Nineteenth
Century

INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
OF THE MODERN AGE

Series Editors

Angus Burgin

Peter E. Gordon

Joel Isaac

Karuna Mantena

Samuel Moyn

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Camille Robcis

Sophia Rosenfeld

Social Questions
and Philosophical Interventions

Robert C. Holub

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Holub, Robert C., author.

Title: Nietzsche in the nineteenth century : social questions and philosophical interventions / Robert C. Holub. Other titles: Intellectual history of the modern age.

Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] | Series: Intellectual history of the modern age | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018002984 | ISBN 978-0-8122-5023-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 18441900. | Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 18441900Political and social views. | Philosophy, German19th century.

Classification: LCC B3317 .H5725 2018 | DDC 193dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018002984

All citations from Nietzsches writings and correspondence are noted parenthetically in the text according to the standards established in current Nietzsche scholarship. Abbreviations used in this study are given below.

When there is no indication in the text, parenthetical citations for published and unpublished writings will include the abbreviation for the work, an indication of where in the work the citation occurs, and the volume and page number in the critical edition. Letters will include the addressee or sender, the date of the letter, the number of the letter, and the volume and page number in the critical edition.

I have consulted various sources for translations, modifying for the sake of accuracy and consistency. In cases where no translation exists, I translated myself.

Friedrich Nietzsche made a conscious effort to present himself as an untimely thinker.should not credit his existence to our age, since it has done everything it could to hinder his existence (Nachlass 1875, 11[19], KSA 8.205). He is against the clever ones, the cold ones, the contented ones as well as the frivolous and the elegant, and for that reason he is untimely (Nachlass 1878, 27[27], KSA 8.491). Nietzsche partakes of the untimeliness of his mentor through his advocacy for his movement. Later, after he has broken with Wagner, he continues to be untimely, affirming in 1885 that he is today what he was then: untimely (Nachlass 1885, 36[17], KSA 11.559). Nietzsches self-stylization as untimely continues right through to his last year of published works: In