Draft translations of:
1. From “Quelques
philosophes,” Prostitués: études critiques sur les gens de lettres
d’aujourd’hui (Paris: Société Parisienne d’édition, 1904), pp. 325–34.
2. From “Suite de
l’Histoire de la Sagesse,” La Sagesse qui rit (Paris: Monde Moderne,
1928), pp. 153–4.
3. From Des diverses
sortes d’individualisme (Paris: Fauconnier, 1922), pp. 18–21.
4. From ibid., pp.
29–30.
Han Ryner critiques
Nietzsche from an individualist-anarchist perspective. His characterization of
Nietzsche as a “Hegelian” is strikingly odd; perhaps he means what we would by “idealist.”
In the first text, Ryner argues for the incoherence of the Overman-ideal in
light of the “eternal return.” In the third, he suggests that the master is
slave to his slaves’ image of himself. In the fourth, he offers a pacifistic
sort of self-mastery as an alternative reading of Nietzsche.
