The Untimely (n.) is a 'sovereign contempt' of the key values that underlie a culture (i.e. The good, the place of history). It aims to be not understood by the present in order to change it's values.
The Untimely (n.) is the idea of thinking the past against the present.
The Untimely (n.) is the idea that because philosophers speak for tomorrow, they are necessarily out of place in the here and now, and are always struggling against the spirit of the present.
The Untimely (n.) is the lot of posthumous men, who are not so well understood as men who reflect their age, but are heard with more respect: never understood, hence their authority.
The Untimely (n.) belongs only to the day after to-morrow: some are born posthumously.
The Untimely (n.) acts counter to our time and thereby on our time, and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.