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Byron, Nietzsche, and the mystery of forgetting. (Lord George Gordon Byron, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
From: CLIO
Date: 19930922
Author:Soderholm, James
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's interest in active forgetfulness can be better understood when seen in relation to Lord George Gordon Byron's 'Manfred,' a drama that greatly influenced the German philosopher's thoughts on forgetting and the self. Forgetfulness, in this sense, is dialectical. Nietzsche saw in Manfred a character who was able to recreate reality and history through actively forgetting the aspects of life that did not appeal to his notion of selfhood. From the play, Nietzsche saw that forgetting did not only happen, it could be intentionally accomplished in the pursuit of identity.
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