15: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The History of Art and the Will to Truth
Nicha sees a use for the critical view of history. If no constructive drive is active behind the historical drive, if justice alone rules, then the creative instinct is enfeebled and discouraged. Art serves our need for necessary fictions. And thus it's always deeply related to things like religion and to morality. We can perhaps source some of the insights that led nica to the search for a gay science.
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