Nietzsche's Teacher: The Invisible Rhetor

Author: Kopp Drew  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 0735-0198

Source: Rhetoric Review, Vol.32, Iss.4, 2013-10, pp. : 437-454

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Abstract

Due to its favorable reception circa 1970, the essay “Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” has solidified Nietzsche's monumental status within the field of rhetoric and writing studies, allowing those inheriting this perspective to put the essay to use without attending to its intertextual background. This article argues that examining the intertextual reception of Nietzsche's essay will not only disclose an invisible, and hence unacknowledged rhetor—Arthur Schopenhauer—hiding in the shadows of Nietzsche's fragmentary essay; doing so will also reveal to what degree this monument's preservation requires its background to remain forgotten.