Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART ONE Youth
- PART TWO The Reluctant Professor
- PART THREE The Nomad
- Chapter 15 The Wanderer and His Shadow
- Chapter 16 Dawn
- Chapter 17 The Gay Science
- Chapter 18 The Salomé Affair
- Chapter 19 Zarathustra
- Chapter 20 Nietzsche's Circle of Women
- Chapter 21 Beyond Good and Evil
- Chapter 22 Clearing the Decks
- Chapter 23 T he Genealogy of Morals
- Chapter 24 1888
- Chapter 25 Catastrophe
- Chapter 26 The Rise and Fall of The Will to Power
- Chapter 27 The End
- Chapter 28 Nietzsche's Madness
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography of Secondary Literature
- Index
- Plate section
Chapter 22 - Clearing the Decks
from PART THREE - The Nomad
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- PART ONE Youth
- PART TWO The Reluctant Professor
- PART THREE The Nomad
- Chapter 15 The Wanderer and His Shadow
- Chapter 16 Dawn
- Chapter 17 The Gay Science
- Chapter 18 The Salomé Affair
- Chapter 19 Zarathustra
- Chapter 20 Nietzsche's Circle of Women
- Chapter 21 Beyond Good and Evil
- Chapter 22 Clearing the Decks
- Chapter 23 T he Genealogy of Morals
- Chapter 24 1888
- Chapter 25 Catastrophe
- Chapter 26 The Rise and Fall of The Will to Power
- Chapter 27 The End
- Chapter 28 Nietzsche's Madness
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography of Secondary Literature
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Fifth Summer in Sils Maria
The appearance of Beyond Good and Evil found Nietzsche once again in Sils Maria. Arriving on June 30, 1886, he would stay, as usual, until the end of September. Though the place was becoming too crowded with middle-class tourists for his liking – by August he records the unwelcome presence of ten professors, four, including himself, in the Durisch house alone – he could find no better way of supporting the ‘permanent, mild winter’ he believed his health required (the ‘bland weather cure’, we might call it). For company he had his usual circle of women, the two Emily Fynns, Countess Mansuroff, and, on a more intellectual level, Helen Zimmern. Meta von Salis visited for two days, together with her mother and her friend (and lover) Hedwig Kym. Having taken her place at the communal dining table, Meta recalls,
I looked around, and my short-sighted eyes gradually assured themselves that it was Nietzsche at the top end of the table. He seemed to me more youthful than at our first meeting and was engaged in lively conversation with the lady on his right, who was introduced to me the next day as Miss Helen Zimmern…That evening, I was able to observe how finely and attentively – quite unlike his ill-founded reputation – he related to women, especially older women. Shortly before everyone left the table I sent my card across to him. When he came over to us I introduced my mother and friend. He was quite charming…to my mother.[…]
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- Friedrich NietzscheA Philosophical Biography, pp. 432 - 449Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010