{"id":17,"date":"2004-09-06T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T15:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/2004\/09\/06\/untimely-meditations\/"},"modified":"2011-11-26T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:13:31","slug":"untimely-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/2004\/09\/06\/untimely-meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Untimely meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"a36\" name=\"a36\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know something about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/saturday_review\/story\/0,,627726,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wittgenstein&#8217;s architectural designs<\/a>, and about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/isd\/archives\/schoenberg\/painting\/painting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Schoenberg&#8217;s paintings<\/a>.  Perhaps there&#8217;s a book to be written on philosophers who composed music: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/rousseau\/jjrmus2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rousseau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nietzschemusicproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nietzsche<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etk-muenchen.de\/etk\/etk_framemaker.php?content_id=3835&amp;top_nav=musik\" target=\"_blank\">Adorno<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More on Nietzsche: in this month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Atlantic Monthly<\/em><\/a>, Terry Castle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/prem\/200409\/castle\" target=\"_blank\">brief omnibus review<\/a> of &#8220;astonishing memoirs by (and about) deeply repellent people&#8221; recommends <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0374157596\/104-1223244-2082339?v=glance\" target=\"_blank\">Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche<\/a><\/em>.  Its author, Ben McIntyre, &#8220;took a boat trip into the Paraguayan jungle in 1991 in search of the surviving inhabitants of Nueva Germania &#8212; an abortive &#8216;Aryan&#8217; colony founded in the late nineteenth century by the ghastly Elisabeth Nietzsche, racist sister of the philosopher.  He found a weird village of unreconstructed white supremacists &#8212; inbred, half mad, many of them still speaking a kind of zombie German &#8212; and heard some curious and frightening stories Josef Mengele.  A true-life <em>Heart of Darkness<\/em>.&#8221;  As Friedrich&#8217;s posthumous PR, the book argues, Elisabeth retrofitted his ideas for an unambiguously anti-semitic agenda and secured for him a place in the Nazi canon Nietzsche himself (in his later years, at least) would have denounced.  For no good reason, imagining this village in the jungle brings to mind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagesjournal.com\/issue08\/reviews\/fitzcarraldo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fitzcarraldo<\/em><\/a>; if anyone were to make a film about all this, Herzog should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know something about Wittgenstein&#8217;s architectural designs, and about Schoenberg&#8217;s paintings. Perhaps there&#8217;s a book to be written on philosophers who composed music: Rousseau, Nietzsche, Adorno. More on Nietzsche: in this month&#8217;s Atlantic Monthly, Terry Castle&#8217;s brief omnibus review of &#8220;astonishing memoirs by (and about) deeply repellent people&#8221; recommends Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15971,1825,2328,199],"tags":[4082,905,14134,19801,2392,19802,14127,2224],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artarchitecture","category-literature","category-nyc","category-philosophy","tag-adorno","tag-art","tag-herzog","tag-music","tag-nietzsche","tag-philosophy","tag-schoenberg","tag-wittgenstein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dingansich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}