Use and Abuse of History
By Friedrich Nietzsche · Running time 02:40:49 · *Non-fiction, History, Philosophy
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“Whoever asks his friends whether they would live the last ten or twenty years over again, will easily see which of them is born for the ‘super-historical standpoint.’” “The Use and Abuse of History” is a work antithetical to Hegelian and Darwinian views of history and progress of Nietzsche’s epoch. Modern man, Nietzsche claims, for all his meticulous studies of the Hellenes and Renaissance has yet to become anything resembling the life-affirming objects of his studies. However, central to this work is the “historical,” “unhistorical,” and “super-historical” senses. Historical studies make man
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