Oct 4, 2021
8 min read
CULTURE
Content and Form, Unite!
In his essay “On the Uses and Advantages of History for Life” (Untimely Meditations, 79–81) Nietzsche argues that people are caught in a tension between content and form. There are times in a culture when content comes to dominate and other times when form comes to dominate — and yet others when both come into balance. He was talking about history and people’s reactions to learning history, but this tension…
