title: Unfashionable Observations: Volume 2 (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche)
author:  Friedrich Nietzsche 
description: "The Colli-Montinari edition has revolutionized our understanding of one of the greatest German thinkers. As a result of the new view opened up by this edition, Nietzsche has clearly come into his own as one of the more important philosophers of modern times. The English-language edition should become a classic that will be used by generations of scholars." (David E. Wellbery <i>The Johns Hopkins University</i>)<br /><br />"The Colli-Montinari critical edition of Nietzsche's works is one of the most important works of scholarship in the humanities in the last quarter century. It was not until after World War II that one began to realize the extent to which Nietzsche's notebooks had been tampered with, jumbled, badly deciphered, and poorly edited, and it was not until the Colli-Montinari edition that scholars could be confident for the first time of having a trustworthy text." (Van A. Harvey)
zlib_text: IDLE TALK: ONTOLOGY AND MASS
  
  COMMUNICATIONS IN HEIDEGGER
  
  _David Dwan_
  
  In _Human all too Human_ Nietzsche outlined the philosophical challenge
  presented by modern media systems. ‘The press, the machine, the railway, the
  telegraph’, he opined, ‘are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has
  yet dared to draw’.1 All of these objects constitute a media circuit 1.
  Nietzsche, _Human_
  
  which challenge old certainties about community, communication and _all too
  Human_
  
  ( _HTH)_ , R.J.
  
  subjectivity. While others might have failed to syllogise upon the premises
  Hollingdale (trans),
  
  of the press, Nietzsche did not hesitate to draw his own conclusions about
  Richard Schacht
  
  (introd), Cambridge,
  
  the brave new world of journalism. ‘Just look at these superfluous people’,
  Cambridge
  
  University Press,
  
  shouts Zarathustra, ‘they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They
  devour 1996, p378.
  
  one another and cannot even digest themselves’.2 A similar rage appears later
  in _Zarathustra_ 