Safranski Rudiger: Nietzsche: biografija njegove misli

Rudiger Safranski: Nietzsche: a biography of his thought

[...] Nietzsche, that Proteus of philosophy, during his wild, daring hunt is on the trail of some subjects that do not let him go. These are still, and how could it be otherwise, those great old themes of Western philosophy: the problem of God and nihilism, the problem of freedom, the problem of cognition and the problem of morality. Like no one else before him, he got involved in contradictions that obviously cannot be avoided in this field. He denied the existence of freedom, in order to claim it as a creative force, so he took the freedom to write off freedom. Behind every truth he placed a big question mark, but that question mark itself was the absolute truth for him. He heralded the death of God, but then put his new highest values ​​in its place. He explored the amoral foundations of morality and presented a critique of morality that was itself largely moral. All this shows us that with the criticism of knowledge, morality, God and metaphysics and the criticism of freedom, we remain in the circle of our own contradictions: we implicitly lay claim to something that we have explicitly rejected - namely knowledge, morality, God, freedom. [...]

In Nietzsche we will find a lot that makes him attractive and versatile: different roles, style, ingenious quips, elegance and Berserker fury, sardonic character and irony, subtle thoughts and hammer blows. However, this spiritual abundance and agility is due not only to his incredible talent and his passionate curiosity, but also to the fact that a man who is so deeply marked by religion like him cannot remain indifferent to the so-called death of God. To fill that void, he had to come up with something. And that imagination is what makes it fascinating to this day around the world. Nietzsche must be one of the most widely read philosophers in the world at the moment. (R. Safranski)

Rüdiger Safranski (1945) is a literary theorist, philosopher and writer. He studied philosophy, among others with Theodor W. Adorno, German studies, history and art history in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. He worked at the University of Berlin (FU) from 1972 to 1977 as a researcher at the Department of German Studies, where he received his doctorate in 1976. For the next ten years, he edited the magazine Berliner Hefte, which he co-founded. He became famous with books on F. Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche, J. W. Goethe and M. Heidegger. From 2002 to 2012, he hosted the show The Philosophical Quartet together with Peter Sloterdijk. Rüdiger Safranski is the recipient of the literary prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2014), the Thomas Mann Prize (2014), the Ludwig Börne Prize (2017) and the German National Prize (2018). So far, two of his books have been translated into Croatian, How much globalization can a person endure?  (2008) and How much truth does a man need? (2010).

I know my destiny. One day, the memory of something immense will be associated with my name - a crisis, the likes of which has never existed on Earth, the deepest conflict of conscience, a decision called against everything that was previously believed, sought, and sacred. I am not a man, I am dynamite, writes Friedrich Nietzsche in his work Ecce homo. In the first biography ever published in the Croatian language, Rüdiger Safranski, an excellent connoisseur of Nietzsche's work, presents us with the great philosopher in all his complexity and with all his contradictions through key events in his life and through the interpretation of his works – Birth of Tragedy, Human, Too Human, Dawn, Joyful Science, Thus He Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, Will to Power, Antichrist... "If we wanted to imagine an ideal, universal subject of the Western philosophical tradition, it would be a subject that bursts under the incredible tensions of disparate forces of being, wanting and needing. However, that ideal subject does not exist, although it is surprising how many disparate things there are and divas rgent can be understood by someone who is spiritually awake. And it is even more surprising how many there are, that is, how many disparate elements were formulated in a striking way [...] by an artist of thought such as Nietzsche", writes Safranski. Nietzsche is, and will remain for a long time, our companion, companion and contemporary.