Untimely Meditations: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life

3 hrs. 30 min.

Language Russian

Author Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrator Vladimir Zlatsky

Description

“History is authorized lies,” Napoleon once said. The great German sage was among his admirers—and that idea couldn’t fail to show up in his book devoted to the treacherous science. Nietzsche distinguishes three types of history and prefers a living depiction of the past. As always, rejecting established canons, he thinks creatively and seeks the unknown, the new, something that can serve modernity, this rapidly rushing life of the present. Of course, this book is full of paradoxes. But aren’t we, too, calling paradoxes the genius ability to look at the world with an unclouded gaze, to boldly carry any thought to its logical conclusion—simply to not be afraid and to rejoice in the very existence within a terrifying reality of being!