pure immanence - nietzsche

at basel, he shed his last "burdens": a certain nationalism and a certain sympathy for bismarck and prussia. he could no longer stand the identification of culture with the state, nor could he accept the idea that victory through arms be taken as a sign of culture. his disdain for germany was already apparent, as well as his incapacity for living among the germans. but with nietzsche, the abandonment of old beliefs did not assume the form of crisis (what occasioned a crises was rather the inspiration or the revelation of a new idea). abandonment was not his problem.

gilles deleuze
on
friedrich nietzsche

2:13 p.m. - 2009-03-04