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Husserl’s well-tended archive has given him a rich afterlife, while Nietzsche’s was distorted by his axe-grinding sister
‘I have a terrible fear that I shall one day be pronounced holy …’– from Ecce Homo(1888/1908) by Friedrich Nietzsche On the morning of 24 September 1938, a Franciscan priest by the name of Herman Van Breda arrived at the Belgian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, carrying three large, overstuffed suitcases. an almost unfathomable abundance of material: fair copies and first printings of books published by Nietzsche himself; the lecture manuscripts and philological treatises from his time as a professor in Basel; the portfolios full of loose pages with ideas, concepts, and excerpts; as well as the notebooks he had used to record his streams of thought. Philology should be understood here, in a very general sense, as the art of reading well – recognising facts without falsifying them through interpretation, without losing caution, patience, finesse in the drive for comprehension… whether concerning books, newspaper columns, destinies or weather events.
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