[←209 ]
Nietzsche, Die fröliche Wissenschaft (Lieder des Prinzen Vogelfrei; An den Mistral): ‘Jagen wir die Himmels-Trüber,/ Welten-Schwärzer, Wolken-Schieber,/ Hellen wir das Himmelreich!/ Brausen wir… oh aller freien/ Geister Geist’. — Tr.
[←210 ]
Nietzsche’s brausen is rendered as retentissant (‘loud, resounding, tremendous’) in French. — Tr.
[←211 ]
Nietzsche, Zarathustra, III, Vor Sonnen-Aufgang: ‘Denn lieber noch will ich Lärm und Donner und Wetter-Flüche, als diese bedächtige zweifelnde Katzen-Ruhe; und auch unter Menschen hasse ich am besten alle Leisetreter und Halb- und Halben und zweifelnde, zögernde Zieh-Wolken’. — Tr.
[←212 ]
Nietzsche, Zur Genealogie der Moral, II, § 22; On the Genealogy of Morality, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson, trans. Carol Diethe (Cambridge, Cambridge Univerity Press, 2006), pp. 63–4. — Tr.
[←213 ]
Zur Geneaology der Moral, III, § 14. — Tr.
[←214 ]
Zur Geneaology der Moral, III, § 14. — Tr.
[←215 ]
Fr. nature and surnature. — Tr.
[←216 ]
Complete Critical Edition of Nietzsche’s Correspondence. — Tr.
[←217 ]
Nietzsche and the Critique of Christianity. — Tr.
[←218 ]
Nietzsche: Teleology and History. — Tr.
[←219 ]
Literally « prospective » totale. — Tr.
[←220 ]
The Return of Tragedy. — Tr.
[←221 ]
Greek Tragedy. — Tr.
[←222 ]
Benoist plays on the etymological connection between ‘religion’ (from religare, ‘to bind fast’) and ‘ligature’ (ligare, ‘to bind’); the ‘religious’ (religeuse) are thus ‘linked’ or ‘bound’ (reliés) to the same conception. — Tr.
[←223 ]
The Religions of Northern Europe. — Tr.
[←224 ]
Tragic Philosophy. — Tr.
[←225 ]
The Death of Tragedy. — Tr.
[←226 ]
Death, Suffering, Struggle, Obligation. — Tr.
[←227 ]
Greek Tragedy (Rachet). The Return of Tragedy (Domenach). The Laws of Tragedy (Monnerot). — Tr.
[←228 ]
Letter on the Chimpanzees. — Tr.
[←229 ]
Tragic Philosophy; The World and its Remedies; Schopenhauer, Philosopher of the Absurd; Structuralist Matinées. — Tr.
[←230 ]
The Logic of the Worst. — Tr.
[←231 ]
French hasard primarily means ‘chance’, but also ‘coincidence, accident, hazard, luck, fate’. — Tr.
[←232 ]
The Lord of Forms. — Tr.
[←233 ]
The Logic of the Worst. Elements of a Tragic Philosophy. — Tr.
[←234 ]
Anti-Nature. — Tr.
[←235 ]
The Real and its Double. — Tr.
[←236 ]
The Civilisation of Manners. — Tr.
[←237 ]
Manners in Civilisation. — Tr.
[←238 ]
On the Process of Civilisation. — Tr.
[←239 ]
In the seventeenth century, pré carré referred to a double line of fortified cities which protected new borders in France; in modern times it refers to a zone or centre of influence. — Tr.
[←240 ]
A neologism of Elias, Verhöflichung (curialisation in French) means ‘rule from royal courts’. — Tr.
[←241 ]
curialité française. — Tr.
[←242 ]
French and Germanic Letters. — Tr.
[←243 ]
The quote is from book XI: ‘So waren wir denn an der Grenze von Frankreich alles französischen Wesens auf einmal bar und ledig. Ihre Lebensweise fanden wir zu bestimmt und zu vornehm, ihre Dichtung kalt, ihre Kritik vernichtend, ihre Philosophie abstrus und doch unzulänglich’. I have translated from the German original with reference to the French cited by Benoist. — Tr.
[←244 ]
Kant, Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht, Siebente Satz: ‘Wir sind im hohen Grade durch Kunst und Wissenschaft cultivirt. Wir sind civilisirt bis zum Überlästigen zu allerlei gesellschaftlicher Artigkeit und Anständigkeit’. — Tr.
[←245 ]
Pluviôse is the second month of the French Republican Calendar, which was implemented from 1793–1805. — Tr.
[←246 ]
The Spirit as Adversary of the Soul. — Tr.
[←247 ]
The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abandlandes). — Tr.
[←248 ]
massification. — Tr.
[←249 ]
The Civilisation of Manners = Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation. Soziogenetische und psychogenetische Untersuchungen. Erster Band. Wandlungen des Verhaltens in den weltlichen Oberschichten des Abendlandes. — Tr.
[←250 ]
History of Words: Culture and Civilisation. — Tr.
[←251 ]
Courtly Society and The Dynamic of the West = Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation. Zweiter Band. Wandlungen der Gesellschaft. Entwurf einer Theorie der Zivilisation. — Tr.
[←252 ]
Romanticism in European Literature. — Tr.
[←253 ]
Political Romanticism. — Tr.
[←254 ]
l’occasionnalisme subjectivé, or subjektivierter Occasionalismus in Schmitt’s German. — Tr.
[←255 ]
Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire (Reveries of a Solitary Walker). — Tr.
[←256 ]
In French as in German, roman means ‘novel’ (narrative).
[←257 ]
German: Des Knaben Wunderhorn, French: Le cor enchanté de l’enfant. — Tr.
[←258 ]
German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, French: Contes de l’enfance et du foyer. More popularly known as the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. — Tr.
[←259 ]
German: Hymnen an die Nacht, French: Hymnes à la nuit. — Tr.
[←260 ]
The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Tr.
[←261 ]
The word is coulisse (pl. coulisses), a theatre-term which indicates the ‘screens’ — the flat, moveable pieces of scenery or drapery — that hide the back areas of the stage from the audience. — Tr.
[←262 ]
Benoist cites the French edition: Considerations sur la Révolution français. — Tr.
[←263 ]
German: Die Hermannsschlacht, French: La bataille d’Arminius. — Tr.
[←264 ]
German: Katechismus der Deutschen, French: Catéchisme des Allemands. — Tr.
[←265 ]
German: Die Elemente der Staatskunst, French: Eléments d’art politique. — Tr.
[←266 ]
Gesang des Deutschen (Hymn to the Germans). — Tr.
[←267 ]
Translated from Hölderlin’s German: ‘O heilig Herz der Völker, o Vaterland!/ Allduldend, gleich der schweigenden Mutter Erd,/ Und allverkannt, wenn schon aus deiner/ Tiefe die Fremden ihr Bestes haben!/ Sie ernten den Gedanken, den Geist von dir,/ Sie pflücken gern die Traube, doch höhnen sie/ Dich, ungestalte Rebe! daß du/ Schwankend den Boden und wild umirrest./ Du Land des hohen ernsteren Genius!/ Du Land der Liebe! bin ich der deine schon,/ Oft zürnt ich weinend, daß du immer/ Blöde die eigene Seele leugnest’. — Tr.
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German: Berliner Abendblätter (Berlin Evening Paper), French: Les feuillets du soir. — Tr.
[←269 ]
Ecole supérieur de Guerre. — Tr.
[←270 ]
German: Leyer und Schwerdt, French: Lyre et épée. — Tr.
[←271 ]
German: Der rheinische Merkur, French: Le Mercure rhénan. — Tr.
[←272 ]
German: Reden an die deutsche Nation, French: Discours à la nation allemande. — Tr.
[←273 ]
German Thought. — Tr.
[←274 ]
German: Deutsche Größe, French: La grandeur allemande. — Tr.
[←275 ]
‘Folkdom’ or ‘Folkhood’. — Tr.
[←276 ]
Histoire allemande in Benoist’s French, possibly corresponding to Osnabrückische Geschichte: Allgemeine Einleitung (1768) or Patriotische Phantasien (1775–86). — Tr.
[←277 ]
German: Einige Worte über das Studium der vaterländischen Geschichte (1810), French: Sur l’étude de l’histoire de la patrie. — Tr.
[←278 ]
‘la terre et les morts’ (Les déracinés). — Tr.
[←279 ]
German: Die Christenheit oder Europa, French: Le chrétienté ou l’Europe. — Tr.
[←280 ]
The ‘Song of Heroic Deeds’ or ‘Heroic Song’. — Tr.
[←281 ]
German: Das Heldenlied von Hermann und seinen Kindern (The Heroic Song of Hermann and his Children), French: Hermann et ses enfants. — Tr.
[←282 ]
German: Der Held des Nordens, French: Le héros du Nord. — Tr.
[←283 ]
German: Die Elemente der Staatskunst, French: Eléments de l’art politique. — Tr.
[←284 ]
German: Vorlesungen über die Methode des akademischen Studiums, French: Conférences sur la méthode de l’enseignement académique. — Tr.
[←285 ]
Vom Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft, French: De la vocation de notre temps pour la legislation et la science du droit. — Tr.
[←286 ]
Journal for Historical Jurisprudence. — Tr.
[←287 ]
German: Über dramatische Kunst und Literatur: Vorlesungen (On Dramatic Art and Literature: Lectures), French: Conférences sur l’art et la literature dramatiques. — Tr.
[←288 ]
Junges Deutschland (Jeune Allamande, Young Germany). — Tr.
[←289 ]
French: De l’Allemagne. — Tr.
[←290 ]
The Marksman or Free-shooter. — Tr.
[←291 ]
German Romantics. — Tr.
[←292 ]
Political Romanticism in Germany. — Tr.
[←293 ]
The Society for Romantic Studies. — Tr.
[←294 ]
Treatise of Knowledge. — Tr.
[←295 ]
Academic notebooks. — Tr.
[←296 ]
instants-endroits. — Tr.
[←297 ]
Benoist uses the terms vide (void, vacuum, i.e. ‘empty space’) and néant (nothing, nihil, i.e. ‘nonexistence’). — Tr.
[←298 ]
The Hypothesis of the Primeval Atom. — Tr.
[←299 ]
The Three Stages of Cosmology. — Tr.
[←300 ]
verrou lecomptien, literally the ‘Lecomtian lock’. — Tr.
[←301 ]
The Origin and Evolution of Life. — Tr.
[←302 ]
How is the Question of the God’s Existence Posed Today? — Tr.
[←303 ]
Life does not exist. — Tr.
[←304 ]
The Origin of Life: Contemporary Theories. — Tr.
[←305 ]
The Chemistry of Life. — Tr.
[←306 ]
What is emergence? — Tr.
[←307 ]
Nature and Methods of Epistemology. — Tr.
[←308 ]
The Logic of the Sensible World. — Tr.
[←309 ]
Logic and its History. — Tr.
[←310 ]
The Scientific Method in Philosophy. — Tr.
[←311 ]
The Philosophical Foundations of Physics. — Tr.
[←312 ]
The Logic of Scientific Discovery. — Tr.
[←313 ]
German: Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde, French: La société ouverte et ses ennemis. — Tr.
[←314 ]
Originally published in English; translated into French as Misère de l’historicisme (Plon). — Tr.
[←315 ]
German: Der Logische Aufbau der Welt, French: Structure logique du monde. — Tr.
[←316 ]
The Principle of Causality and its Limits — Tr.
[←317 ]
German: Protokollsätze. — Tr.
[←318 ]
German: Logik der Forschung. Zur Erkenntnistheorie der modernen Naturwissenschaft, published in English as The Logic of Scientific Discovery. — Tr.
[←319 ]
The Philosophical Foundations of Physics. — Tr.
[←320 ]
Language and Metaphysics in Contemporary English Philosophy. — Tr.
[←321 ]
Elements of Epistemology. — Tr.
[←322 ]
Positivist Philosophy. — Tr.
[←323 ]
Carnap’s Philosophy (Krauth); Mathematics, Logic, and Experience (Kraft); Probability, Statistics, and Truth (von Mises); Meaning and Necessity, (Carnap). — Tr.
[←324 ]
Energy and Psychological Matter. — Tr.
[←325 ]
On Logical Becoming and Affectivity. — Tr.
[←326 ]
Microphysical Experiment and Human Thought — Tr.
[←327 ]
The Principle of Antagonism and the Logic of Energy. — Tr.
[←328 ]
The Three Matters. — Tr.
[←329 ]
The Tragedy of the Universe. — Tr.
[←330 ]
Centre international de recherches sur les logiques de l’antagonisme (CIRLA).
[←331 ]
Contradiction and New Understanding. — Tr.
[←332 ]
Energy and Psychological Matter, and Energy and Living Matter. — Tr.
[←333 ]
The Tower of Fire: Being and Non-being with Lupasco. — Tr.
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