unhistorical

is the art of forgetting and of drawing a limited horizon round one's self.

By the word `unhistorical' I mean the power, the art of for-getting, and of drawing a limited horizon round one's self.' (NW III. i. 326, UA 95) (spivak in on grammatology : 30)

is the foundation upon which alone anything sound, healthy and great, anything truly human, can grow.

we shall thus have to account the capacity to feel to a certain degree unhistorically as being more vital and more fundamental, inasmuch as it constitutes the foundation upon which alone anything sound, healthy and great, anything truly human, can grow. The unhistorical is like an atmosphere within which alone life can germinate and with

is the power and the art of forgetting, of drawing a limited horizon around oneself.

And through this network of shifting values, we begin to glimpse the complexity of the act of choosing forgetfulness, already advanced as a partial solution to the problem of history in the same early essay: '. . . the antidotes of history are the `unhistorical' and the `super-historical.' . . . By the word `unhistorical' I mean the power, the art of forgetting, and of drawing a limited horizon round one's self.' (NW III. i. 326, UA 95)

is the power, the art of forgetting, of choosing 'forgetting' as a way for the philosopher to avoid falling into the trap of historical knowledge.

And through this network of shifting values, we begin to glimpse the complexity of the act of choosing forgetfulness, already advanced as a partial solution to the problem of history in the same early essay: '. . . the antidotes of history are the `unhistorical' and the `super-historical.' . . . By the word `unhistorical' I mean the power, the art of for-getting, and of drawing a limited horizon round one's self.' (NW III. i. 326, UA 95) (spivak in on grammatology : 32)

is the vaporous region of a man seized by a vehement passion (for a woman or for an idea) for whom the world transforms into a world where his senses are focused, directed, heightened, and intensified.

What deed would man be capable of if he had not first entered into that vaporous region of the unhistorical' Or, to desert this imagery and illustrate by example: imagine a man seized by a vehement passion, for a woman or for a great idea: how different the world has become to him! Looking behind him he seems to himself as though blind, listening around him he hears only a dull, meaningless noise... whatever he does perceive, however, he perceives as he has never perceived before all is so palpable, close, highly coloured, resounding, as though he apprehended it with all his senses at once. All his valuations are altered and disvalued... there are so many things he is no longer capable of evaluating at all because he can hardly feel them any more: he asks himself why he was for so long the fool of the phrases and opinions of others... he is amazed that his memory revolves unwearyingly in a circle and yet is too weak and weary to take even a single leap out of this circle. (nietzsche 'untimely' 'uses and abuses' : 64)

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