How to understand this intimacy between the future and the original? The philosopher of the future is at the same time the explorer of the old worlds, peaks and caves, and only creates by dint of remembering something that was essentially forgotten. That something, according to Nietzsche, is the unity of thought and life. Complex unit: one step for life, one step for thought. Ways of life inspire ways of thinking, ways of thinking create ways of living. Life activates thought and thought in turn affirms life. We have no idea of this pre-Socratic unity. We only have examples where thought impregnates and mutilates life, feels it, makes it judicious, and where life takes its revenge by driving thought crazy and losing itself with it. We have no choice but between mediocre lives and crazy thinkers. Lives too wise for a thinker, thoughts too crazy for a living being: Kant and Hölderlin. B...read more