Over Nut en Nadeel van Geschiedenis voor het Leven

Samenvatting

This book is different than Nietzsche's well-known major works. It does not explicitly examine the nature of morality, the master/slave relationship, or related questions. Instead, it questions the relationship of historical knowledge to life in the present. By "present", Nietzsche does not mean some specific century or decade, but rather the present we perpetually find ourselves in as human beings. Nietzsche asks: given that we always live in such a present, why do we want or need historical knowledge?