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Posted by soosai nadar on 12/1/2006, 6:33 am, in reply to "My Undergrad Thesis on Nietzsche"
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: I've just recently graduated from college and
: I took a second major in Philosophy. My
: thesis was on Nietzsche's failed yet
: consequential relationship with Lou Salome.
: This website and its letters from this
: period in Nietzsche's life were helpful in
: my task so I figured I'd give you all the
: opportunity to read it. Just shoot me an
: e-mail and I'll send it to you. I've posted
: the abstract below.
:
: Thanks,
: Joe
:
: During the year 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche
: became acquainted with Lou Andreas Salome
: through their mutual friend Paul Ree.
: Nietzsche soon fell in love with her despite
: his denials to friends. His feelings were
: unrequited. Out of his failure to win the
: heart of Salome, Nietzsche was able to
: produce Thus Spoke Zarathustra. To
: demonstrate this conclusion, this paper
: looks critically at Nietzsche's thoughts on
: suffering, pain, friendship, love,
: Christianity, and conventional morality as
: espoused in The Gay Science, written prior
: to his relationship with Salome. When these
: attitudes are compared with the sentiments
: expressed in the letters he wrote to Salome,
: Ree, and other friends, we see that despite
: his defiance of conventional morality,
: Nietzsche was involved whole-heartedly in a
: conventional infatuation. The collapse of
: his relationship with Salome was devastating
: and consequential because it forced him to
: re-evaluate himself, his goals, and his
: philosophy. This introspection invigorated
: him and strengthened his ideas as well as
: kept the integrity of his previous works in
: tact. The result was the birth of
: Zarathustra, the main character and
: mouth-piece of his now further refined
: philosophy. Included within Thus Spoke
: Zarathustra are direct references to his
: relationship with Salome. By understanding
: his relationship with Salome and its
: consequences, a more complete understanding
: of his philosophy emerges.
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