Friday, July 02, 2021
I Write For Myself
Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882-Winter 1883/84), tr. Paul S. Loeb and David F. Tinsley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019 = The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 14), p. 303 (Notebook 8, number 20):
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I write for myself: and what's the point of writing in this age that has been written to death? little: for, apart from scholars, no one knows how to read anymore, and even scholars — — —Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachgelassene Fragmente 1882-1884, edd. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, 2. Aufl. (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1988 = Kritische Studienausgabe, Bd. 10), p. 341:
Ich schreibe für mich selber: und welchen Sinn hätte Schreiben in diesem zerschriebenen Zeitalter? wenig: denn abgesehen von den Gelehrten versteht Niemand mehr zu lesen, und auch die Gelehrten — — —Related posts:
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