Handbuch Rhetorik und Philosophie

Werner Stegmaier

10Nietzsches rhetorische Philosophie der Rhetorik

Abstract: Not only as professor of classical philology in Basel did Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) intensively work on rhetoric, especially on Greek rhetoric. He was also concerned with rhetorical questions in his entire philosophical work. His philosophy as a whole is even more rhetorical than Plato’s: he not only uses the single form of dialogue, but various forms of philosophical writing. In the center of his philosophical writing, he places, like Plato his Socrates, a mythical-historical teacher, Zarathustra, later more and more himself, in both cases a concrete, unique, and situated person in which the different lines of his philosophy converge. While Plato still sketches ...