How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold - An interview with Philipp Felsch

The postwar period witnessed a renaissance in Nietzschean thought and interpretation, most notably with the French postmodernist readings generated by Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. But what drove the French Nietzschean renaissance was in many ways supported by the work of two Italian philologists Giorgio Colli and his former student Mazzino Montinari, and their lifelong translation of Nietzsche's unpublished material and key main works.
To tell this story, we are joined by German Cultural Historian Philipp Felsch to discuss his newly translated book How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption, published by Polity Press in June 2024.
In this newly translated book, Felsch retraces the journey of two Italian editors, Giorgio Colli and his former student Mazzino Montinari and their efforts to translate the unpublished material of Nietzsche. Felsch tells a gripping and unlikely story of how one of Europe’s most controversial philosophers was resurrected from the baleful clutch of the Nazis and transformed into an icon of postmodern thought.
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[@ReclaimedDasein]

I really great interview. I especially like Tutt's hands off interview style. Occasionally, he interjects a question or two, but they're incisive and to the point.

[@jvpresnall]

Truly good conversation.

[@hankmmxviii2640]

I ultimately agree with Lukacs' assessment of Nietzsche as a reactionary bourgeois philosopher and a product of the German philosophy's idealism, irrationalism and affinity for myths. This spiritual and idealist radicalism, which conveniently avoids challenging the material structures of society, is precisely why he remains 'seductive' and influential among bourgeois intellectuals, the post-modern philosophers and the 'new' left.
I'm not familiar with Harich's work but going off of your assessment, the overemphasizing on Nietzsche and the idea that suppression of Nietzsche's philosophy could've saved leftism is the desperate idealism of a philosopher who overestimates the influence of his own field and goes against the dialectical materialism of Marx, which says philosophy and culture are not elevated from the socio-political conditions of the time and are in a dialectical relationship with every other aspect of society.

[@prog8454]

I find Lukács's category of irrationalism self-defeating because if anti-foundationalism is irrational then hegel is an irrational thinker because its accepted by the majority of hegel scholars including ones with fundemental disagreements, for example brandom and houlgate, accept that hegel is an anti-foundationalist thinker.
Not mention that every other student of Schopenhauer adopts hegel in their system, including Mainländer who was enjoyed by August Bebel, the leader of the SPD, who was staunchly anti-war.

[@eightiefiv3]

Minute 45-6: I think Felsch means Domenico Losurdo (not Giovanni).

[@septillionsuns]

I find it interesting that you do not understand that fascism and progressive liberalism have become the same thing.

[@GarryCraigPowell-z3n]

Maybe, but equally we could add that the radical identitarian left has become fascist. It makes no secret of its authoritarianism, or even of its approval of violence.