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Typologies of Histories

From the book Nietzsche on Memory and History

  • Anthony K. Jensen

Abstract

This paper exegetically examines the status of the three ‘forms’ of historiography in Nietzsche’s On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life. I argue, first, that these forms are problematic as representations of Nietzsche’s philosophy of history; second, that they should not be considered forms of writing history so much as psycho-physiognomic characteristics that are expressed through determinate historiographical forms; and, third, that while they introduce a subjective element into historiography, they are nevertheless neither relativistic nor exactly satisfy the conditions of what would later become Nietzsche’s theory of perspectival representation.

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