Nietzsche on Reading Philosophers and Posthumous Friendship in Beyond Good and Evil 27-28

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F25%3A39923880" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/25:39923880 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/nietzstu-2025-0012" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/nietzstu-2025-0012</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nietzstu-2025-0012" target="_blank" >10.1515/nietzstu-2025-0012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Nietzsche on Reading Philosophers and Posthumous Friendship in Beyond Good and Evil 27-28

Original language description

&quot;This article presents a close reading of BGE 27 and 28, which concern how to read philosophical books and the kind of friendship such reading makes possible. In BGE 27, Nietzsche distinguishes three kinds of readers who have different paces of thought and life, comparable to rivers, frogs and tortoises. While he implies a hierarchy by saying some are &quot;&quot;at best&quot;&quot; comparable to frogs, he does not state explicitly which type is best. Most commentators assume &quot;&quot;rivers&quot;&quot; are ideal, but the article argues that Nietzsche is deliberately misleading; though he provokes this misinterpretation, he actually implies that &quot;&quot;tortoises&quot;&quot; are the best readers. Tortoise-like readers are often posthumous, reading authors who are already dead, but they enjoy a kind of friendship with the deceased unavailable to most contemporaries, who lack the right &quot;&quot;nature.&quot;&quot; The transition from BGE 27 to 28 reflects the shift from &quot;&quot;good friends&quot;&quot; among the living to true friends among the dead. The article also explores the idea of posthumous friendship in Nietzsche more broadly and suggests that his ideal of friendship as &quot;&quot;shared joy&quot;&quot; (Mitfreude), rather than &quot;&quot;compassion&quot;&quot; or &quot;&quot;shared suffering&quot;&quot; (Mitleid), is best realized in posthumous friendship with philosophers, which takes the form almost exclusively of shared joy.&quot;

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GN22-33981I" target="_blank" >GN22-33981I: Placing Nietzsche's First Philosophy into a New Perspective</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nietzsche-Studien

ISSN

0342-1422

e-ISSN

0342-1422

Volume of the periodical

54

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

103-129

UT code for WoS article

001552514700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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