" In section 6 in "Why I Write Such Excellent Books" of Ecce Homo, he claims that "goodness" in women is a sign of "physiological degeneration", and that women are on the whole cleverer and more wicked than men-which in Nietzsche's view, constitutes a compliment. His attitude can sometimes be entirely disparaging: "From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth-her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty. At times he could speak both in praise and in contempt of women, as in the following passage: "What inspires respect for woman, and often enough even fear, is her nature, which is more “natural” than man’s, the genuine, cunning suppleness of a beast of prey, the tiger’s claw under the glove, the naiveté of her egoism, her uneducatability and inner wildness, the incomprehensibility, scope, and movement of her desires and virtues." ( Beyond Good and Evil, section 239.) For instance, while in Human, All Too Human, he states that "the perfect woman is a higher type of human than the perfect man, and also something much more rare, " there are a number of contradictions and subtleties in Nietzsche's thought elsewhere which are not easily reconcilable. Nietzsche wrote specifically about his views on women in Section VII of Human, All Too Human, which seems to hold women in high regard but given some of his other comments, his overall attitude towards women is ambivalent. I argue that the metaphor 'woman' is central to Nietzsche's attack on traditional philosophy and notions of truth." Remarks in his writings Kathleen Merrow writes: "Nietzsche's metaphors of 'woman' - far from being misogynist - reveal a positive, affirmative 'woman.' His use of this metaphor radically dislocates traditional conceptions of the relationship masculine/feminine as it dislocates the 'truth' of metaphysics. My husband, like myself, always kept friendly memories of Nietzsche his behavior precisely towards women was so sensitive, so natural and comradely, that even today in old age I cannot regard Nietzsche as a despiser of women.
In the eighties, when Nietzsche's later writings containing some of the oft-quoted sharp words against women appeared, my husband sometimes told me jokingly not to tell people of my friendly relations with Nietzsche, since this was not very flattering for me. In her memoir of Nietzsche, published seven years after his death, she remarked: Between 18 Nietzsche had close relations with her family. Ida von Miaskowski was the wife of the economist August von Miaskowski, who taught at the University of Basel.
Friedrich Nietzsche's views on women have attracted controversy, beginning during his life and continuing to the present.Īttitudes in public and in private
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