La consistenza del passato: Heidegger Nietzsche Severino [The consistency of the past: Heidegger Nietzsche Severino]. By Alessandro Carrera
The trick of good history of philosophy (in an essential echo of a theology of the fall) is to identify where the first sin was committed, for otherwise the importance of the beginning, and the meaning of betraying that beginning, will never come to light. For an obvious example, Nietzsche's re...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Literature and theology
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 120-122 |
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| Summary: | The trick of good history of philosophy (in an essential echo of a theology of the fall) is to identify where the first sin was committed, for otherwise the importance of the beginning, and the meaning of betraying that beginning, will never come to light. For an obvious example, Nietzsche's recasting of the Greek tragedians as the best Presocratic thinkers would have been tepid, at best, if he hadn't been able to identify the Parmenidean moment in Plato, and the resulting privilege of being over becoming, as a fundamental betrayal of the originality of the Greek tragic gesture of affirming life. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frn002 |