From Westdeutscher Rundfunk on 24 July 2008:
Contrary to earlier statements, the excavation of lignite beneath the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s birthplace in Sachsen-Anhalt has not yet been ruled out. The Central German Brown Coal Company (“Mibrag”) said in April that “an excavation of the site” was out of the question. On Wednesday, however, a spokesman for [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Nietzsche’s birthplace still threatened
Posted in News & media on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sils Maria colloquium
Posted in Events on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The annual Nietzsche-Kolloquium at the Nietzsche-Haus in Sils Maria will take place from 25-28 September. Programme here.
Obama
Posted in Miscellaneous on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From “Barack by the Books” by Laura Miller in Salon:
Obama himself went through a period of “devouring” the work of Nietzsche while living in New York. It’s difficult to say what Obama might have absorbed from the German philosopher, mostly because Nietzsche himself is so hard to pin down, but one of Obama’s favorite instructors [...]
Yet more on Nietzsche and the Wagners
Posted in Publications on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out in June: Dieter Borchmeyer, Nietzsche, Cosima, Wagner (Insel).
