Ben Macintyre, author of Forgotten Fatherland, writes a follow-up to the Times story (see below) about the threat to Nietzsche’s grave from mining interests. “I would be delighted to see Nietzsche dug up, if only for the symbolic opportunity to rescue him from the clutches of his appalling sister.”
Archive for March, 2008
Nietzsche’s sister’s grave also threatened
Posted in News & media on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nietzsche’s grave under threat
Posted in News & media on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Times is today carrying the story mentioned earlier this month here on The Mole:
Roger Boyes in Berlin
Friedrich Nietzsche declared famously that “God is dead!” so it is probably safe to assume that he did not much care what happened to his skeleton.
Which may be just as well as bulldozers prepare to turn over [...]
Nietzsche, hipster
Posted in News & media on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
‘Was Nietzsche the original hipster?’ asks Eryk Salvaggio in The Maine Campus.
Call for papers: European philosophy
Posted in Events on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Call for Papers for the 4th Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland, 29-31 August, 2008.
The SEP-FEP Joint Conference offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present papers in any area of European Philosophy. Abstracts of no more than 500 words [...]
Nietzsche and religion
Posted in Publications on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out now: Philippe Gaudin, La religion de Nietzsche (Editions de l’Atelier).
Nietzschean rough guide to Madrid
Posted in Miscellaneous on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So you’re in Madrid and want to see some art, have a drink, hear some live music, maybe even catch an aerial dance show – all in a pretentiously named chill-out lounge? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Nietzsche.
Nietzsche in Vienna
Posted in Events on March 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Liebscher, Nietzsche’s ‘ausgesuchte Intelligenzen’: Reading Nietzsche in Vienna
31 March, 17:45 – 19:30
An IGRS Work in Progress Seminar at University of London, School of Advanced Study, ST275 (Stewart House)
Contact: igrs@sas.ac.uk
Nietzsche and freedom
Posted in Publications on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out at the end of this month, but now orderable with a pre-publication 25% discount: John Mandalios, Nietzsche and the Necessity of Freedom (Lexington).
Maud Rosenthal (née Levy) obit
Posted in News & media on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ludovici was a sometime collaborator of Oscar Levy, one of the most important early British Nietzscheans. Levy’s daughter and assistant Maud, an FNS member, died in December; here is her recent obituary in the Independent. (Maud’s son is ITV sport presenter Jim Rosenthal.)
Ludovici online
Posted in Nietzsche sites on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A number of works by British Nietzsche commentator, novelist and eugenicist Anthony Ludovici (1882-1971) have been published online on a dedicated website. Ludovici wrote widely on contemporary themes, but of particular interest will be Who is to be Master of the World? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1909), Nietzsche: His [...]
