英文摘要 |
This paper analyzes the genesis of an aphorism in Nietzsche's Things Human, All Too Human in light of genetic criticism. The philosophical work is characterized for its use of an aphorism which concerns the death of Nietzsche's father. I explore the significance of the aphorism from Nietzsche's biography, some literary aspects of his writing as well as a philosophical reference to Plato's works. In the first part, I will show the intertextual references in Nietzsche's Things Human, All Too Human. Moreover, I argue that Nietzsche suspended the meaning of a sentence by leaving the reader the task of completing it with the use an adversative, trotzdem, which is followed by two Gedankenstriche, two em dashes, to end the narrative. Writing for everyone and for no one, the philosopher shows different levels of comprehension corresponding to different degrees of culture. |