ABSTRACT
Nietzsche wants to provide a dynamic, active Darwinism, in which life excels, expands, and transforms itself, undergoes or, rather, undertakes, becoming-other and becoming-more. Life is to be conceived in isolation, alone and independent, without external impetus; rather, life is that which makes what is external part of its own internal dynamic. The task is to make elements of this past live again, to be reenergized through their untimely or anachronistic recall in the present. A moderated diet of memory is needed, memory that overwhelm perception of the present and the edgy anticipation of the future, yet memory that let down the lure of the untimely, that facilitates the out-of-time of invention and innovation. Nietzsche distinguishes among three types of history, three modes of reflection on the past: monumental, antiquarian, and critical history, whose calculated mix provides the ingredients for a healthy, vigorous capacity to live in the present and to seek out the force of the future.
