On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

by Alexandria Miller Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life (in the original German, Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben), written in 1874 as part of his second “Untimely Meditation,” has been read not only as an essay on the crisis of historical culture, but also as a… Continue Reading On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life