Nietzsche on Time and History ≥ Nietzsche on Time and History Edited by Manuel Dries Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York (cid:2)(cid:2)Printedonacid-freepaperwhichfallswithintheguidelines oftheANSItoensurepermanenceanddurability. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. ISBN 978-3-11-019009-0 BibliographicinformationpublishedbytheDeutscheNationalbibliothek TheDeutscheNationalbibliothekliststhispublicationintheDeutscheNationalbibliografie; detailedbibliographicdataareavailableintheInternetathttp://dnb.d-nb.de. (cid:2)Copyright2008byWalterdeGruyterGmbH&Co.KG,10785Berlin,Germany. Allrightsreserved,includingthoseoftranslationintoforeignlanguages.Nopartofthisbook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopy,recording,oranyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermis- sioninwritingfromthepublisher. PrintedinGermany Coverdesign:MartinZech,Bremen. Printingandbinding:Hubert&CoGmbH&CoKG,Göttingen. If there is no goal in the whole of history of man’s lot, then we must put one in: assuming, on the one hand, that we have need of a goal, and on the other that we’ve come to see through the illusion of an immanent goal and purpose. And the reason we have need of goals is that we have need of a will—which is the spine of us. ‘Will’ as the compensation of lost ‘belief’, i.e., for the idea that there is a divine will, one which has plans for us. Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachlaß Summer 1886–Spring 1887, KSA 12, 6[9] We are still growing continually, our sense of time and place, etc., is still developing. Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachlaß April–June 1885, KSA 11, 34[124] ‘Timeless’ to be rejected. At a particular moment of a force, an absolute conditionality of the redistribution of all forces is given: it cannot stand still. ‘Change’ is part of the essence, and therefore so is temporality—which, however, just amounts to one more conceptual positing of the necessity of change. Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachlaß May–July 1885, KSA 11, 35[55] Acknowledgements The essays in this volume were first presented at the 15th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in September 2005. I wish to take this op- portunity to thank delegates and all those who participated in this event for the debates and critical discussions that shaped the research presented here. I would further like to thank the Faculty of Philosophy and the De- partment of German at Cambridge for providing generous financial sup- port. I am much indebted to Raymond Geuss, Simon Blackburn, Margaret Clare Ryan, and the Executive Committee of the Friedrich Nietzsche Soci- ety for their advice during the various stages of the editing of this volume. Two of the contributions in this book are either drawn from or have appeared in full elsewhere, and this material appears with permission and my thanks. Raymond Geuss’ article was previously published in his collec- tion of essays Outside Ethics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). It is reprinted here with permission of Princeton University Press. Lawrence J. Hatab’s article is drawn in parts from the text of his book Nietzsche’s Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence (New York: Routledge University Press, 2005). I thank Routledge for per- mission to publish the essay. The four excerpts of printed music of Wagner, Bizet, and Stravinsky in Jonathan R. Cohen’s essay appear here with permission of Dover Publi- shing, Chester Music Limited (Music Sales) and Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG. Every effort has been made to trace and contact copyright holders. If there are any inadvertent omissions I apologize to those concerned and undertake to include suitable acknowledgements in future editions. Finally, I would like to thank Walter de Gruyter Publishers for taking on this volume, Gertrud Grünkorn, Christoph Schirmer, and Jana Pokorny for their patient support, and Angela Blackburn for copyediting the final manuscript. Contents Notes on Contributors XI Abbreviations and Translations XIII Nietzsche’s Critique of Staticism Introduction to Nietzsche on Time and History 1 Manuel Dries Part I: Time, History, Method Nietzsche’s Cultural Criticism and his Historical Methodology 23 Andrea Orsucci Thucydides, Nietzsche, and Williams 35 Raymond Geuss The Late Nietzsche’s Fundamental Critique of Historical Scholarship 51 Thomas H. Brobjer Part II: Genealogy, Time, Becoming Nietzsche’s Timely Genealogy: An Exercise in Anti-Reductionist Naturalism 63 Tinneke Beeckman From Kantian Temporality to Nietzschean Naturalism 75 R. Kevin Hill Nietzsche’s Problem of the Past 87 John Richardson Towards Adualism: Becoming and Nihilism in Nietzsche’s Philosophy 113 Manuel Dries Part III: Eternal Recurrence, Meaning, Agency Shocking Time: Reading Eternal Recurrence Literally 149 Lawrence J. Hatab Suicide, Meaning, and Redemption 163 Paul S. Loeb Nietzsche and the Temporality of (Self-)Legislation 191 Herman W. Siemens X Part IV: Nietzsche’s Contemporaries Geschichte or Historie? Nietzsche’s Second Untimely Meditation in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Philological Studies 213 Anthony K. Jensen ‘An Uncanny Re-Awakening’: Nietzsche’s Renascence of the Renaissance out of the Spirit of Jacob Burckhardt 231 Martin A. Ruehl Part V: Tragic and Musical Time Metaphysical and Historical Claims in The Birth of Tragedy 275 Katherine Harloe Nietzsche’s Musical Conception of Time 291 Jonathan R. Cohen Index rerum et nominum 309(cid:1)