ABSTRACT

125The Czech novelist Milan Kundera writes: ‘By his refusal of systems, Nietzsche brought deep changes to the way philosophy is done: as Hannah Arendt defined it, Nietzsche’s thought is experimental thought. His first impulse is to break up whatever is rigid, to undermine commonly accepted systems, to open rifts for venturing into the unknown; the philosopher of the future will be an experimenter, Nietzsche said; free to go off in various directions that could, conceivably, come into conflict.’ 1