Impatience

J.P. Stern

  • Unmodern Observations by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Herbert Golder, Gary Brown and William Arrowsmith
    Yale, 402 pp, £30.00, February 1990, ISBN 0 300 04311 2
  • The Importance of Nietzsche by Erich Heller
    Chicago, 200 pp, £23.95, February 1989, ISBN 0 226 32637 3

The four essays the young Nietzsche wrote between August 1873 and July 1876 (as part of a larger project that was never completed) are linked by his concern over the state of German culture after the victorious conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War and the proclamation of the Reich at Versailles in January 1871. These Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, written while Nietzsche was Professor of Classical Philology at Basle, are here translated as Unmodern Observations by different hands, under the editorship of Professor William Arrowsmith of Boston University.

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Vol. 12 No. 16 · 30 August 1990 » J.P. Stern » Impatience (print version)
pages 17-18 | 4158 words