Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation

Haase and Sinclair render the German into a readable and fluent English. They make potentially clunky and jargon laden passages from the original seem natural, and also do a good job of dealing with the specific difficulties thrown up by this text. In particular, they confront well the problem of distinguishing between Historie, the study of the past, and Geschichte, which is the past in general, as it underpins reality. * Phenomenological Reviews *

Ullrich Haase is Head of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is author of Starting with Nietzsche and editor of the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. Mark Sinclair is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University and Associate Editor at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. He is author of Heidegger, Aristotle and the Work of Art.

Translators' Introduction A. Preliminary Remarks 1. Remarks Preliminary to the Exercises 2. Title 3. The Appearance of our Endeavours B. Section I. Structure. Preparation and Preview of the Guiding Question. HistoriologyLife 4. HistoriologyThe Historical On the Unhistorical/Supra-historical and the Relation to Both 5. Section I. 1 6. Section I. 2 7. Section I 8. Comparing 9. The Determination of the Essence of the Human Being on the Basis of Animality and the Dividing Line between Animal and Human Being 10. Nietzsche's Procedure. On the Determination of the Historical from the Perspective of Forgetting and Remembering 11. 'Forgetting''Remembering'. The Question of 'Historiology' as the Question of the 'Human Being'. The Course of our Inquiry. One Path among Others. 12. Questions Relating to Section I 13. Forgetting 14. Nietzsche on Forgetting 15. 'Forgetting' and 'Remembering' 16. Historiology and 'the' Human Being 17. 'The Human Being'. 'Culture'. The 'People' and 'Genius' 18. CultureNon-Culture, Barbarism 19. Human Being and Culture and the People 20. Nietzsche's Concept of 'Culture' 21. The Formally General Notion of 'Culture'. 'Culture' and 'Art' 22. 'The' Human Being and a Culturea 'People' 23. 'Art' (and Culture) 24. Genius in Schopenhauer 25. The People and Great Individuals 26. Great Individuals as the Goal of 'Culture', of the People, of Humanity 27. 'Worldview' and Philosophy C. Section II. The Three Modes of Historiology 1. Monumental Historiology 28. The Question of the Essence of 'the Historical', i.e. of the Essence of Historiology 29. Section II. Structure (7 Paragraphs) D. Section III 30. The Essence of Antiquarian Historiology 31. Critical Historiology E. Nietzsche's Three Modes of Historiology and the Question of Historical Truth 32. 'Life' 33. 'Life'. Advocates, Defamers of Life 34. Historiology and Worldview 35. How is the Historical Determined? 36. The Belonging Together of the three Modes of Historiology and Historical Truth 37. The Three Modes of Historiology as Modes of the Remembering Relation to the Past 38. Section II F. The Human Being. Historiology and History. Temporality 39. Historiologythe Human BeingHistory (Temporality) 40. The Historical and the Unhistorical G. 'Historiology'. Historiology and History. Historiology and the Unhistorical 41. 'The Unhistorical' 42. The Un-historical 43. The Un-historical 44. History and Historiology 45. Nietzsche as 'Historian' 46. Historiology and History 47. 'Historiology' 48. History and Historiology H. Section IV 49. On Section IV ff., Hints 50. Section IV 51. Section IV (Paragraphs 1-6) I. Section V 52. Section V 53. Section V, Divided into Five Parts 54. Oversaturation with Historiology and with Knowledge Generally J. Concerning Section V and VI: Truth. 'Justice'. 'Objectivity'. Horizon. 55. Life'Horizon' 56. Objectivity and 'Horizon' 57. Justice 58. JusticeTruth 59. Lifeand Horizon 60. Beings as a Wholethe Human Being 61. 'Truth' and the 'True' 62. The True and Truth 63. Truth and the Human Being 64. Will (Drive) to 'Truth' 65. Nietzsche on the 'Will to Truth' K. On Sections V and VI. Historiology and Science (Truth). (cf. J. Truth. 'Justice'. 'Objectivity'. Horizon) 66. The Human BeingThe Gods 67. Why the Primacy of 'Science' in Historiology? 68. 'Positivism' 69. Historiology 70. Historiology and Science 71. The Impact of Historiology on the Past 72. Truth 73. Historiology as Science 74. 'Historiology' and &apo