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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) presents himself several times as a physician of culture. He considers it his task to make a diagnosis of the culture of his age, to point to the latent or patent diseases, but also to the possibilities to overcome them. His diagnosis, prognosis, and prescriptions implied anā¦
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Named āDenker des Vaderlandsā in 2021 by the Stichting Maand van de Filosofie in the Netherlands, Paul van Tongerenās introductory text is among the few that not only advances theses of Nietzsche, but also explicitly outlines a hermeneutics for approaching a range of texts in their idiosyncratic rhetorical style. For me, the second chapter was a sort of watershed moment where I came to realize how many layers there are to Nietzscheās writingāand how slow and ruminative a reader should be in interpreting his ideas. When one follows van Tongerenās techniques, a whole kaleidoscope of new meanings emerge in centralā¦
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