1: How the True World Finally Became a Fable

1: How the True World Finally Became a Fable

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The Gay Science #23 (V.356-363)

In this chapter of our readthrough, we confront "the problem of the actor". Nietzsche predicts that things shall become ever more "artistic" in Europe, as the actor's talent self-falsification becomes developed in all members of society. Whereas in the Middle Ages, the individual ...  Show more

The Gay Science #22 (V.348-355)

The grand experiment continues with a series of naturalistic explanations for the origins of ideas or modes of life. The scholar's intellectual habits are inherited "in blood and instinct"; Spinoza's philosophy is sourced to his sickliness; Darwinian theories of evolution are a p ...  Show more

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