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The problem of history in Nietzsche’s essay On the Utility and Liability of History for Life

Hontvári, Tamás (2023) The problem of history in Nietzsche’s essay On the Utility and Liability of History for Life. JOG - ÁLLAM - POLITIKA : JOG- ÉS POLITIKATUDOMÁNYI FOLYÓIRAT, 15 (2). pp. 101-112. ISSN 2060-4580

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Abstract

This paper examines Nietzsche’s concerns over the study of history in his essay On The Utility and Liability of History for Life. In this essay, Nietzsche attempts to show that an excessive scientific historicising poses a danger to the vitality of the present and argues that history must be used in a way that supports and enhances life. Nietzsche’s concerns regarding the study of history operate over several interconnected levels that range from the cultural and existential to the epistemological. In this paper, the author argues that Nietzsche’s concerns are well founded, grounded in a novel conceptualisation of the temporal structure and the historical nature of human existence. These insights allow Nietzsche to reconstruct the problem of history as an issue of the proper way of relating to one’s own historical condition, and to recognise the dangers of self-alienation due to an excessive scientific historicising.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Nietzsche, early writings, cultural and historical analysis, critique of scientific historicism, temporality, historicity
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion / filozófia, pszichológia, vallás > B1 Philosophy (General) / filozófia általában
C Auxiliary Sciences of History / történeti segédtudományok > CB History of civilization / művelődéstörténet
Depositing User: Andrea Tankó
Date Deposited: 17 Oct 2023 11:31
Last Modified: 17 Oct 2023 11:31
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/176968

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