So what is our purpose — if we have a purpose at all? Let's say we've written a bogus study. Since we read Nietzsche in the text, since we hear him speak, perhaps we will make him speak in terms of "ourselves" and we will contribute to the whispering, the gossip, the outbursts of anger and laughter in this prose, the most insinuating that hitherto occurred in the German language — also the most irritating? For those who know how to listen to them, Nietzsche's words acquire such a resonant character that contemporary history, events and the universe begin to respond in a more or less vague way to the questions formulated by Nietzsche some eighty years ago. We will try to understand the way in which Nietzsche questioned the near or distant future that has now become our daily present - a future that he foresaw convulsive, to the point of caricaturing his thought within our own convulsio...read more
