Sublime

In Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche formulates three tasks for which pedagogues are necessary. One needs to learn to see, to think, and to speak and write. The goal of education, according to Nietzsche, is “noble culture.” Learning to see means “getting your eyes used to calm, to patience, to letting things come to you”—that is, making yourself cap

Eugen Fink; together they showed him the collection. He marvelled at the sheer visual impact of it: rows of folders containing around 40,000 pages of writings in Husserl’s shorthand, plus another 10,000 typed or handwritten pages transcribed by his assistants, and in the library some 2,700 volumes collected

Et même aujourd'hui que son autorité les intimide et les rend réservés, les spécialistes voudraient bien enfermer de nouveau le « Prince hors la loi » dans un système, une doctrine, une religion ou un message. Ils voudraient bien qu'il fût, comme eux-mêmes, lié à des convictions, muré dans une conception de l'univers — précisément ce qu'il craignai

While some career-oriented academics try to squeeze as many publications out of one idea as possible, Luhmann seemed to do the opposite. He constantly generated more ideas than he was able to write down. His texts read as if he is trying to squeeze as much insight and as many ideas as possible into one publication.