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  • Chapter 11 - The promising animal

  • Edited by Simon May, King's College London
  • Book:
    Nietzsche's <I>On the Genealogy of Morality</I>
    Published online:
    05 November 2011
    Print publication:
    13 October 2011, pp 234-264

  • Summary

    What makes it impossible for us to achieve self-knowledge is the depth of our commitment to a conception of ourselves as always already at-home to ourselves, as self-identical, hence essentially transparent to ourselves. As if to confirm his claim to be underway or transitional, the Nietzsche's preface presents a select autobiography of his writing life as first on the way to knowing, and then on the way beyond it, strokes of the pen recounting strokes of the clock. Towards the end of the first essay of the Genealogy, Nietzsche invents Mr. Rash and Curious, in order to act as an explorer of the underground workshop within which morality is cobbled together. Promises can be broken as well as fulfilled; and a promising animal can have its anticipatory relation to the future foreclosed by its relation to the past.