Thursday, April 16, 2009

The Dawn of Day

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche




WHEN Nietzsche called his book The Dawn of Day he was far from giving it a merely fanciful title to attract the attention of that large section of the public which judges books by their titles rather than by their contents. The Dawn of Day represents, figuratively, the dawn of Nietzsche's own philo- sophy. Hitherto he had been considerably influ- enced in his outlook, if not in his actual thoughts, by Schopenhauer, Wagner, and perhaps also Comte.

After his rupture with Bayreuth, Nietzsche is, in both parts of that work, trying to stand on his own legs, and to regain his spiritual freedom ; he is feeling his way to his own philosophy, The Dawn of Day y written in 1881 under the invigorating influ- ence of a Genoese spring, is the dawn of this new Nietzsche. " With this book I open my campaign against morality," he himself said later in his auto- biography, the Ecce Homo.

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