The best essay will proceed through a close reading of the source text and offer a careful and critical interpretation of the main conclusions and inferences of that analysis. A good critical interpretation is not necessarily one that finds fault with the original text but is always one that makes that text clearer and more comprehensible on its own terms, whether one ultimately agrees or disagrees with its position.
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Topic: In his essay “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life,” Nietzsche writes: “We need history, certainly, but we need it for reasons different from those for which the idler in the garden of knowledge needs it. [… ] We need it, that is to say, for the sake of life and action, not so as to turn comfortably away from life and action.” a. Discuss and compare the three different species of history Nietzsche describes in this essay. What are the strengths of each species, and what are the dangers of each? (That is, how and why might each mode of history both serve “life and action” and work to take us away from that same life?) b. What ultimately does Nietzsche offer as the healthy or proper use of history for life by the conclusion of the essay?
Explicit engagement with the language and details of the reading is needed, with page numbers for every citation on each page (please use several for each page!!) also you must read all the pages of Nietzsche’s writing to have a full
understanding and properly engage with the text in the essay.
