Poem Brut #43 / Duos #14 – Umbiblical
We wrote it this summer while at Alec Soth’s “River House” art project, in which he invites writers and artists to his isolated, abandoned house in rural Minnesota to spend the day with him working on spontaneous art projects. In this poem, we each write one line. I started the first line, she wrote the next line, I wrote the following line, and so forth. We did not speak to each other while we wrote the poem.
In the 43rd edition of The Poem Brut series and the 14th edition of Duos series new poetry by Sara Estes and Veronica Kavass.
The Innocence of Becoming: Nietzsche Against Guilt
I offer an interpretation of Nietzsche’s idea of “the innocence of becoming” (die Unschuld des Werdens), and a defense of its import that no one is ever morally responsible or guilty for what they do and that, in consequence, many of the so-called “reactive attitudes” are misplaced. The idea of the “innocence of becoming” is introduced explicitly in the final two sections of the “Four Great Errors” chapter of one of Nietzsche’s mature works, Twilight of the Idols.
Brian Leiter writes about Nietzsche’s attitude towards guilt.