That's OK, writernon :) It's just that Nietzsche's awesomeness lies in questioning and critiquing the prevailing ideas of 'truth'. So for a given value of truth, the fact that Nietzsche was appropriated by the Nazis and understood as a fascist thinker are all true. Nietzsche's one dictum is to problematise and historicise each of these interpretations so that no one of them is understood as the whole truth. So it kiiind of goes against Nietzsche's own ideas for the professor to say interpretations align with the truth.
You're really awesome for having picked him. :D
just finished reading On the Genealogy of Morality, still reeling from the brilliance.
<3 I think I wrote this in about ten minutes, and I knew there were a few problems. And the argument that I was trying to make which I realize now was less clear than I wanted, is that Nietzche wrote before the Nazis, not for them. And using only their interpretation was deeply wrongheaded and oversimplified.
The professor I'm going to cop out with, and say that he's a little less careful with his words and anyway prefers the French philosophers, and has his own ideas about Truth and truth. So his interpretation of Nietzche isn't as bad as the students' - he wants them to at least broaden their understandings of Nietzche, and the contexts his work was used in (ASIDE from Nazis. They've got that one down already, lol) and read from more than one source. Or, hell, at least read what he assigns, which hasn't been limited to calling Nietzche a Nazi.
...I might have been overthinking the class I just made up...
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Re: Questioning Your Indoctrination [1/1]
Date: 2011-02-17 06:55 pm (UTC)Re: Questioning Your Indoctrination [1/1]
Date: 2011-02-18 02:22 pm (UTC)So it kiiind of goes against Nietzsche's own ideas for the professor to say interpretations align with the truth.
You're really awesome for having picked him. :D
just finished reading On the Genealogy of Morality, still reeling from the brilliance.
Re: Questioning Your Indoctrination [1/1]
Date: 2011-02-18 06:18 pm (UTC)The professor I'm going to cop out with, and say that he's a little less careful with his words and anyway prefers the French philosophers, and has his own ideas about Truth and truth. So his interpretation of Nietzche isn't as bad as the students' - he wants them to at least broaden their understandings of Nietzche, and the contexts his work was used in (ASIDE from Nazis. They've got that one down already, lol) and read from more than one source. Or, hell, at least read what he assigns, which hasn't been limited to calling Nietzche a Nazi.
...I might have been overthinking the class I just made up...