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The Use and Abuse of History by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History, Philosophy

Read by: Public Domain Scholar in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Preface
00:03:40 - 01 - Section I
00:19:55 - 02 - Section II
00:31:59 - 03 - Section III
00:41:57 - 04 - Section IV
00:56:21 - 05 - Section V
01:09:03 - 06 - Section VI
01:27:07 - 07 - Section VII
01:40:02 - 08 - Section VIII
01:56:50 - 09 - Section IX
02:21:01 - 10 - Section X

'Whoever asks his friends whether they would live the last ten or twenty years over again, will easily see which of them is born for the ‘super-historical standpoint.'''The Use and Abuse of History' is a work antithetical to Hegelian and Darwinian views of history and progress of Nietzsche's epoch. Modern man, Nietzsche claims, for all his meticulous studies of the Hellenes and Renaissance has yet to become anything resembling the life-affirming objects of his studies. However, central to this work is the 'historical,' 'unhistorical,' and 'super-historical' senses. Historical studies make man unhappy, yet while man envies the animals who live unhistorically, man would not trade places with them. A healthier organism, for Nietzsche, is one who can appropriately learn and forget history.Part of a larger work, 'Thoughts Out of Season,' yet published, read, and taught independently of it, 'The Use and Abuse of History' is an early work of Nietzsche's in which he questions the overly scholarly studies of history and asks 'How are such studies serving or not serving life?' - Summary by Public Domain Scholar