Alfred Fouillée, ‘leitor lido’ de Nietzsche

Alfred de Musset's Sign.

M of us have a personal idiosyncrasy, to remember eponyms in c l in ica l medicine and other branches. They include syndromes, phenomenas, laws and rules, tests, manoeuvres, triads, tetrads, etc. Most of the times, they indicate te names of the persons who first described them, but some imply other persons or situations. De Musset's sign (head nodding with each heart beat) at times seen in aort...

Nietzsche

Der 'Nietzsche-Thesaurus' des Nietzsche-Online-Portals

The ‚Nietzsche-Thesaurus’ ist part of an Internet-Portal to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (under construction). By using the complex Index of a Citation Lexicon (print version) and combining it with the lexikal data and structure of the ‘Deutscher Wortschatz’ (Wehrle/Eggers, a kind of transformation of the Roget’s Thesaurus), a relational access system is developed. Concept and Sta...

Nietzsche on Freedom

One of the very few matters of nearly universal agreement with respect to Nietzsche interpretation, one that bridges the great analytic/continental divide, is that Nietzsche was offering some sort of account of freedom, in contradistinction to the ‘ascetic’ or ‘slavish’ ways of the past. What remains in dispute is the character of this account. In this paper I present Nietzsche’s account of fre...

Nietzsche and Contemporary Metaethics

1I use the following standard acronyms when citing Nietzsche’s texts: TheAntichrist (A); Beyond Good and Evil (BGE);TheBirth of Tragedy (BT);TheCase ofWagner (CW);Daybreak (D); Ecce Homo (EH); On the Genealogy of Morality (GM); The Gay Science (GS); Human, All-Too-Human (HH); Nietzsche contra Wagner (NCW); Twilight of the Idols (TI); Untimely Meditations (UM); Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Z). I cite...