In his book on Hölderlin’s hymn “The Ister,” Heidegger develops an interpretative technique that we can call “stating the obvious”: he suggests the hymn is a meditation on the Ister river (the Danube) itself and its inner essence, and is not an allegory for any neoplatonic diatribe about the soul or anything else.
Nietzsche's experience of freedom in the Mediterranean climate is like a microcosm of the ancient progenitors of Greek culture migrating down from the North– the great store of energy built up by subsisting in a colder and gloomier environment now let loose in exuberance.
Nietzsche's experience of freedom in the Mediterranean climate is like a microcosm of the ancient progenitors of Greek culture migrating down from the North– the great store of energy built up by subsisting in a colder and gloomier environment now let loose in exuberance.