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Can someone help explain this passage from Twilight of the Idols? I'm a bit lost on it.

My impossibles. -- Seneca: or the toreador of virtue. -- Rousseau: or the return to nature in impuris naturalibus. -- Schiller: or the Moral-Trumpeter of Sackingen. -- Dante: o the hyean which poetizes on graves. -- Kant: or cant as intelligible character. -- Victor Hugo: or the Pharos in the Sea of Absurdity. -- Lizst: or the virtuoso -- with women. George Sand: or lactea ubertas, in English: the milch cow with the 'fine style'. -- Michelet: or enthusiasm which strips off the jacket. -- Carlyle: or pessimism as indigestion. -- John Stuart Mill: or offensive clarity. -- Les freres de Goncourt: or the two Ajaes struggling with Homer. Music by Offenbach. Zola: or 'delight in stinking'. --

>> No.20296214

>>20296137
It's basically a writer/artist that he dislikes/disagrees, with the reason why he dislikes it.

>> No.20296578

>>20296214
That is how I understood the passage. It's just Nietzsche being up his own arse about it.

>> No.20296590

>>20296137
Ravings of a trifling, syphilitic cuckhold who achieved nothing.

>> No.20296870

>>20296137
He's philosophizing with a hammer, that is, telling it like it is.

>> No.20296871

>>20296137
4chan shitpost written by a genius

>> No.20297151

Based Nietzsche

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>>20296137
>Lizst: or the virtuoso -- with women.
https://youtu.be/QT13kk8HDDo

>> No.20297488

>>20296137
He called Schiller moral trumpeter because of his blatant and superficial moralising in most of his plays, think of Don Carlos or Wilhelm Tell, it all being so festive it becomes ridiculous. I don't know about the other ones, likely noone else will either considering noone posting in Nietzsche threads reads.

>> No.20298947

>>20296214
Thanks, that all makes sense now. I'm not familiar with the ideas of all the people he named and I was confused.
So he is opposed to Roussea's philosophy? This is the first book of Nietzsche's I've read and thus far I would've thought he would sympathize with Rousseau, so now I'm hoping he goes more in depth later to explain his criticism.

>> No.20300120

>>20297488
I think he is criticizing Dante for using poetry to jab at dead men whom he knew.