R. Kevin Hill

Nietzsche’s Sister and *The Will to Power* [Open College series]

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Audio links: iTunes Stitcher YouTube Topics: The drama of The Will to Power // My earlier position // What was Nietzsche’s sister’s actual involvement? // The book’s connection to the Nazis // The themes from The Will to Power Transcription: Forthcoming Sources: Robert Matthews, “‘Madness’ of Nietzsche was cancer not syphilis,” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3313279/Madness-of-Nietzsche-was-cancer-not-syphilis.html. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Walter Kaufmann and R. […]

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*The Will to Power* — new translation by Hill and Scarpitti

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Penguin has published a new translation by R. Kevin Hill and Michael Scarpitti of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Will to Power. In the mid-1880s Nietzsche was extraordinarily productive making and reworking notes for an intended magnum opus. But he did not complete it and turned to publishing the final few short books of his career before

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Philipse’s book on Heidegger — David Auerbach’s review

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Professor Kevin Hill drew my attention to Auerbach’s review of Herman Philipse’s Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being (Princeton, 1998) and this excerpt from Philipse in particular: Heidegger’s individualistic notion of authenticity, according to which Dasein has to liberate itself from common moral rules in order to choose one’s hero freely, tends to collapse into a collectivist

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Appendix 4: Quotations on German militarism [Nietzsche and the Nazis]

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[This is Appendix 4 of Nietzsche and the Nazis. Sources for the quotations are at the end of this post.] Appendix 4: Quotations on German militarism Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): “War itself, if it is carried on with order and with a sacred respect for the rights of citizens, has something sublime in it, and makes

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