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Subjectivity, Passion, And Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing, Joseph Leivdal
Subjectivity, Passion, And Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing, Joseph Leivdal
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For Nietzsche, the subject is aesthetically creative, meaning that the subject is a dynamic process of self-transformation that involves not only the subject’s sense of self, but the meaning of their world. In my first chapter, I look at "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense" to show how Nietzsche deconstructs rationalist epistemology in order to show that knowledge and meaning are an aesthetic activity. In my second chapter, I look at "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life" to argue that Nietzsche sees creativity as a passionate, sublime overflow, a rupture with the present that artistically …