“When you gaze long into the abyss,
the abyss
also gazes into you”
From Beyond Good and Evil
1886
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900
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(Date Accessed 18th November 2012)
FRIEDRICH
NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and
writer who pioneered the concept of
“life
Affirmation” which
involves the honest questioning of all doctrines.
His philosophies centred on the world which we
live in rather than the world beyond. He is widely regarded as one of the
fathers of existentialism.
Exintentialism:
That is the philosophical approach to
understanding human existence based upon
experiences.
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I chose to use the Bank Gothic typeface to
represent the quote which was designed by Morris Fuller Benton in the 1930’s
for the American Type Founders or ATF. At the time ATF controlled about 85% of all
type manufactured in the United States.
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Gallery Poster
Bus Stop Shell
T-Shirt with the Quotation Desing
I decided to use this font as I find it quite
eye-catching and simple. I particularly
like the geometry of the typeface design. The characters are bold and strong
and they don’t rely too heavily on complicated curves to get themselves
noticed. They are almost cubist in
design. Each of them taking on the form
of a square and using bold right angles to form the letters.
As the quotation is of a philosophical nature
I wanted to keep the font as easy to read as possible. I wanted them to process the words easily and
then look again to ponder their meaning.
How
Nietzsche Became an influence for hitler and the nazi movement
Nietzsche was himself an existentialist and an
intellectual who did not share hitler’s hatred of jews or his fanaticism with
anti-Semitism. In fact Nietzsche oppose
to anti-Semitism and even admired the jews.
"The
Jews, however, are beyond all doubt the strongest, toughest, and purest race
now living in Europe. Thanks above all
to a resolute faith that does not need to feel ashamed in the presence of
'modern ideas.'" Germany, he continued, would do better to deport the
antisemites than the Jews who would provide many good qualities.
Nietzsche went mad for the last 10 years of
his life but his sister who looked after his estate backed the nazi cause. Hitler admired Nietzsches ability to express
himself so clearly and to the point. He was a regular visitor to the Nietzsche
museum and even had a statue made of him.
Hitler twisted nietzsche’s idea of their one
day being a “superman” and interpreted it into his “superior race
philosophy”. He was also inspired by
Darwins theorys like purifying the races.
Hitler used this in his book “Mein Kampf”.
Neitzsche described himself as an
anti-antisemitist. He was anti organised
religion and wanted people to think for themselves and be strong. He once wrote “is man one of gods blunders or
is god one of mans blunders”.
I think that Nietzsche would have frowned upon
how hitler used his philosophies. He
would most definitely have seen him as weak and someone who was trying to
overcompensate for his insecurities. It
is safe to say that he would have disapproved of both hitler and the nazi
movement.
Bibliography
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Nietzsche” (2012). Wikipedia. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche (Accessed: 16 November 2012).
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