/lit/ - Literature

>>22624719
Both were obsessed with German identity and its connection to the soil.

>>20812633

What's your favorite line, thought, insight etc. from a philosophical work?

>>19135345
This Jesuit.

>>18185346

What do you guys think of the Gesamtkunstwerk as a Hegelian idea?

>A Nietzsche bias colors the work of the young Heidegger, whose explorations of the contingency of human existence strongly influenced Sartre. Having endorsed the Nazi takeover in 1933, Heidegger sided with those who saw Wagner as a decadent detour of the German spirit. Lecturing on Nietzsche in 1936, Heidegger characterizes the Gesamtkunstwerk as “the dissolution of everything solid into a fluid, flexible, malleable state, into a swimming and floundering.” This soup of feeling is a poor substitute for a “solidly grounded and articulated position in the midst of beings.” Although Heidegger ends up rejecting Nietzsche’s will to power as a last gasp of metaphysics, he favors his predecessor’s clear, forceful “masculine aesthetics.” By uncritically adopting Nietzsche’s attack on the “feminine” Wagner, Heidegger exposes the regressive tendencies in his own thought—an ironic outcome, given the widespread perception of Wagner as the more reactionary, Nazi-leaning figure.

>>18083763
>A Nietzsche bias colors the work of the young Heidegger, whose explorations of the contingency of human existence strongly influenced Sartre. Having endorsed the Nazi takeover in 1933, Heidegger sided with those who saw Wagner as a decadent detour of the German spirit. Lecturing on Nietzsche in 1936, Heidegger characterizes the Gesamtkunstwerk as “the dissolution of everything solid into a fluid, flexible, malleable state, into a swimming and floundering.” This soup of feeling is a poor substitute for a “solidly grounded and articulated position in the midst of beings.” Although Heidegger ends up rejecting Nietzsche’s will to power as a last gasp of metaphysics, he favors his predecessor’s clear, forceful “masculine aesthetics.” By uncritically adopting Nietzsche’s attack on the “feminine” Wagner, Heidegger exposes the regressive tendencies in his own thought—an ironic outcome, given the widespread perception of Wagner as the more reactionary, Nazi-leaning figure.

>>17815672
>"God lets the oppositional will of the ground operate in order that might be which love unifies and subordinates itself to for the glorification of the Absolute. The will of love stands about the will of the ground and this predominance, this eternal decidedness, the love for itself as the essence of being in general, this decidedness is the innermost core of absolute freedom."
>"Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a god can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the god or for the absence of the god in the time of foundering [Untergang] for in the face of the god who is absent, we founder. Only a God Can Save Us."
>"For us contemporaries the greatness of what is to be thought is too great. Perhaps we might bring ourselves to build a narrow and not far reaching footpath as a passageway."
>"God has always been with me."

Can anything literary wise top Greek tragedy?

What would his response be?