Frequently Asked Questions
When was the Nietzsche Circle founded, and by whom?
In 2002, the founding members of the Nietzsche Circle met to discuss the possibility of staging a festival to respond to the question, “What would Zarathustra have to say to us if he were here today?” Over the course of the next two years, the idea for the Nietzsche Circle was born and its vision fleshed out; its first event, Transfigurations: An Evening of Nietzche’s Poetry & Music, was staged in April of 2005 to celebrate the American publication of James Luchte’s The Peacock & the Buffalo, the first complete edition of Nietzsche’s poetry in English. The founders include Yunus Tuncel, Rainer J. Hanshe, Cem Aydogan, and Corbin J. Morris.
What is the Nietzsche Circle?
​While aesthetics is our primary concern, our pursuits are not strictly limited to art; we also explore other dimensions of Nietzsche’s philosophy, while we recognize that life itself can be an art and philosophy an artistic expression of existence or artful form of living. In the Nachlass, Nietzsche stated that his general task was “to show how life, philosophy, and art can have a deeper and familial relationship to each other, without philosophy becoming shallow and the life of the philosopher becoming untruthful” (KSA 8: 104). In our own way, we struggle with this task.
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