Tag Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche
In Praise of German Culture
My father was a Germanophile even though we haven’t any family history rooted in the Germanic peoples, except for a Dutch ancestor who emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in the 17th Century. Dad belonged to the German Club at the University of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schopenhauer, Austria, Beethoven, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Johannes Brahms, Magister Ludi, Martin Heidegger, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann
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Friedrich Nietzsche on God, Christianity, The Enlightenment, Rationality, Science, Truth, and Especially About Words & Language
In my early years I associated Nietzsche’s name with the phrase “God is dead,” but I didn’t know if he was supposed to be celebrating this assertion or decrying it, or something else entirely. In the early 1980s, when having a … Continue reading
