Nietzsche’s Poetic Yes-Saying

Abstract

Nietzsche’s poems show a positive contribution to the general topic of the conference “The Philosophy of Saying “Yes”. Since Nietzsche’s early youth poems constitute an important part of his literary work. Among the great philosophers of the last centuries there are two parallels, which at the same time differ from Nietzsche in a revealing way: Marx and Heidegger. Nietzsche’s poems are not simply poetic sins of youth, as with Marx. Rather they accompany his entire mature work. And unlike Heidegger’s Winke they do not want to distance themselves from every kind of poetry, but rather behave sans phrase as poems, yes oft en as songs. The article analyzes the poems of Nietsche in his works “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, “Dawn: Thoughts about Moral Prejudices”, “The Gay Science”, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, “Beyond Good and Evil”, “Dionysos Dithyrambs”.