Intertextual LinkDestruction Compels Creation

Linked from Essay III, Section 13: "The No he says to life brings to light, as if by magic, an abundance of tender Yeses; even when he wounds himself, this master of destruction, of self-destruction - the very wound itself afterward compels him to live.--"

 

quotes[W]hoever can still fear to hear (but today one no longer has ears for this!) how in this night of torment and absurdity there has resounded the cry of love, the cry of the most nostalgic rapture, of redemption through love, will turn away, seized by invincible horror.

From Genealogy, Essay II, Section 22
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Reader's Question

  • How is the "abundance of tender Yeses" related to the "cry of love, of the most nostalgic rapture, of redemption through love" that Nietzsche contrasts in Essay II with the "gloomy, black, unnerving sadness" of the man of bad conscience? What is the relationship between the ascetic priest and that man?

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