Abstract:
Untimely Meditations II (1874) and Human, All-Too-Human (1878) are two works in which history plays a central role. The purpose of this article is to investigate the differences of the use of the history in these texts. In the first book, there is the pretension of replacing the Hegelian historical science with three types of history, each of which is suitable to a certain moment of culture. In the second text, there is not really a historical science, but a philosophy with a historical sense: the action of history in this work is more radical both in the attempt to overcome metaphysics and in relation to life.
Keywords
Development; History; Life; Metaphysics; Science