The Gay Science | work by Nietzsche | Branni

Contents:

• NIETZSCHE'S THE GAY SCIENCE
• THE GAY SCIENCE
• IS THERE A GAY BASIS TO NIETZSCHE'S IAS?
• NIETZSCHE: THE GAY SCIENCE WH A PRELU GERMAN RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS
• NIETZSCHE'S 'THE GAY SCIENCE': AN TRODUCTN
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NIETZSCHE'S THE GAY SCIENCE

Wrg an amb bgraphy that emphasiz Nietzsche’s sexualy, Köhler tends to show that Nietzsche was gay, and that this sight leads to a reterpretatn of his work. Yet curly, he do not addrs Nietzsche’s exclamatn, Ecce Homo, that his wrgs are one thg, and he himself is another (sectn 1 of Why I Wre Such Good Books).

So was Nietzsche gay? Köhler shows that the hypothis that Nietzsche was gay illumat many episos his life, and that some ntemporari thought that he was gay. While is prumably not te of the European 19th century what Peter Brown says ( his The Body and Society) of late antiquy, namely, that is a world irretrievably closed to , we mt keep md that some regards Nietzsche’s was a different world ed: the experience of diversy was limed; sexualy was not openly discsed, while homosexualy was often punishable by rceratn.

So should be unsurprisg that no direct evince of Nietzsche’s homosexualy emerg. Still, some skepticism remas: there is no specific person wh whom Köhler claims unambiguoly that Nietzsche had a homosexual relatnship, or wh whom he longed to have one. No reference to a gay lover appears Nietzsche’s wrgs, not even a note book, although Nietzsche, for most of his sane life, had ltle reason to spect that, one day, scholars would eagerly publish even material he had disrd.

THE GAY SCIENCE

Inappropriate as this prumably was, is no ditn of homosexualy, given that the petg hypothis is that Nietzsche was a sensive if perhaps socially somewhat maladjted (but at any rate straight) man tryg to nnect to like-md souls wherever he uld reach them, and was often rebed that procs. Do Köhler mean to suggt that Rée and Nietzsche were gay lovers, at least briefly? This is as close as Köhler to actually nnectg Nietzsche’s alleged homosexualy to a particular person.

Very illumatg is Köhler’s suggtn that Nietzsche went to Italy bee offered refuge to German homosexuals exiled om their own untry. Long before Thomas Mann’s Aschenbach enuntered the boy Tadz, German homosexuals ventured south to fd their own Tadzs.

We know nothg about what Nietzsche did Sicily, but Köhler argu that he uld not possibly have gone for any other reason than to seek homosexual enunters.

IS THERE A GAY BASIS TO NIETZSCHE'S IAS?

) Köhler wr as if that trip had been the culmatn of Nietzsche’s homosexual life, whatever else that life amounted to. Still, while there are lgerg qutns and no nclive evince, Köhler’s se is strong: he mak a very real possibily that Nietzsche was gay.

Yet grantg that much, or more, for the sake of the argument, why should we re whether Nietzsche was gay if we are terted his philosophy?

This, then, is Zarathtra’s secret: Zarathtra, Nietzsche’s “son, ” talks cryptic terms about Nietzsche’s life self, his experienc as a fatherls son, and his subsequent experienc as a homosexual nmned to hidg his clatns. Yet addn to the ncern articulated the last paragraph, we are now also wonrg what the nnectn is between Nietzsche’s alleged homosexualy, which seems to be part of what Zarathtra reveals, properly unrstood, and the eternal recurrence, or the superman (whom Köhler brgs a b too much nnectn wh Nietzsche’s Sicilian enunters, sayg that Nietzsche “saw” the superman Sicily (p 255)). Köhler sists that Nietzsche’s philosophy mt be rethought once we e to terms wh his homosexualy, but fails to expla why Nietzsche’s homosexualy even rms his ia of eternal recurrence.

NIETZSCHE: THE GAY SCIENCE WH A PRELU GERMAN RHYM AND AN APPENDIX OF SONGS

Jt how do philosophers have to modify their thkg about eternal recurrence if that ia is proposed by a gay man wh nightmar and fantasi, rather than a “sexls tellectual wh a wals motache? ” Would we have to rethk the Categoril Imperative if new rearch revealed that Kant and Lampe were gay lovers? It might well be possible that Nietzsche’s hidn homosexualy helps expla passag Zarathtra; if so, is so much more unfortunate that the Zarathtra mentary was exclud om the translatn.

But at any rate, the nnectn between Nietzsche’s hidn homosexualy and central them, such as the ath of God and eternal recurrence, remas obscure. While I praised the origal German edn the Wter 1999 issue of this magaze [then The Harvard Gay & Lbian Review], the nservative Nietzsche tablishment has displayed nsirably ls enthiasm.

Leer also disput the flammatory statement ma by Pl Fern durg the April 1, 1908, meetg of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society: “From a reliable source he uld say that Nietzsche had lived om time to time a homosexual life and ntracted his lu [syphilis] a homosexual borllo Genoa. In a reply dated July 7, 1994, he stated the followg: “Unfortunately I have no ia how my father learned of Nietzsche’s homosexualy.

NIETZSCHE'S 'THE GAY SCIENCE': AN TRODUCTN

” It should be noted that he do not ll Nietzsche’s “homosexualy” to qutn. The ocsn was the publitn that year of Ecce Homo. Here Frd himself weighed and offered his solutn to the riddle posed by Nietzsche: “Cut off pletely om life by the illns [syphilis], he turns to the only object of rearch that remaed to him and that lay closer to him anyway as a homosexual, the ego.

” The mut make clear that Frd never doubted that the philosopher was “a homosexual. Jung claims to have learned that he got the lu a homosexual borllo.

Frd’s fal remark about Ecce Homois also worth quotg: “The whole nceptn of the book suggts that a chapter entled ‘On My Sexualy’ belongs and was perhaps also wrten. Was ‘homosexual. It should be relled that the adjective as well as the abstract noun Homosexualät had first appeared prt the year 1869, a age by the Atro-Hungarian wrer K.

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Overbeck proceeds to rm that his lleague was of the opn that “N’s Homosexualätwas only athetic. Was ed by no means homosexual the real sense, but the matter occupied him already very early and a great al and was often discsed by durg our nversatns Basel. ” Sce Overbeck do not fe his terms, is by no means clear what he means when he says that Nietzsche was not “homosexual the real sense.

” Whoever reads his wrgs properly will “learn enough om them how thgs stood regardg N’s Homosexualätand his tert the matter. Among other thgs, I was told that “Nietzsche did discs homosexualy wh Overbeck on ocsn [emphasis me]. The letter went on to state that “this only shows that Nietzsche had some tert the topic of homosexualy.