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A New Year's Word

Name: A New Year's Word
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

A New Year's Word must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

Composition: 1875, private publication
Sources and precision
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Confidence A · direct evidence
Nietzsche Source: eKGWB author-approved works
Tradition: Modern and contemporary philosophy
Period: Modern era
Languages: German · English · French
Extent: 1 passage · 627 words

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What you will learn

To read A New Year's Word, name the attacked value, recover its target and period, then test a counter-perspective without turning provocation into dogma.

Short summary

A New Year's Word must be read through its period, genre, and precise polemical target. Its striking formulations do not replace the movement of the text.

Long summary

In A New Year's Word, canonical identity follows the eKGWB editorial block and preserves its source anchor. Critical German and AI-generated French and English remain distinct manifestations.

This reading requires following the polemic’s target, the adopted mask, and shifts between periods. An isolated aphorism is neither a complete system nor permission to crush another person.

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The world around the text

The corpus manifests do not yet establish the precise place and circumstances of composition. The images below document the author’s world or the text’s transmission. They do not claim to show the exact scene of writing.

These are modern reconstructions. They situate a documented place, practice, or transmission and are not period documents.

Modern reconstruction of Turin for A New Year's Word on Prokopton42.com — **Turin**Final productive months and collapse. The generated scene uses Turin and 1888-1889 as its documented anchors.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Nietzsche

Modern reconstruction of Nearby historical landmark, 1789 for A New Year's Word on Prokopton42.com — **Nearby historical landmark, 1789**The French Revolution overturns the monarchy and makes citizenship, rights and sovereignty immediate political questions. The image situates A New Year's Word without claiming to show its scene of composition.

Modern reconstruction of Material world: agriculture and food, 1789 for A New Year's Word on Prokopton42.com — **Material world: agriculture and food, 1789**The French Revolution overturns the monarchy and makes citizenship, rights and sovereignty immediate political questions. The image situates A New Year's Word without claiming to show its scene of composition.

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World of 1989

Modern reconstruction of the material world around A New Year's Word: Technology, science, and care — **Technology, science, and care**Personal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet. Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration. CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.

Modern reconstruction of the material world around A New Year's Word: Travel and communication — **Travel and communication**Cars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods. Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.

Modern reconstruction of the material world around A New Year's Word: Farming and food — **Farming and food**Machinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.

Modern reconstruction of the material world around A New Year's Word: Clothing, women and men — **Clothing, women and men**Loose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.

State of technology: Personal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet.
Science and knowledge: Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration.
Medicine and care: CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.
Transport: Cars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods.
Agriculture and food: Machinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.
Communication: Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.
Clothing and fashion: Loose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.

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English AI-generated translation, non-officialCodex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13
French AI-generated translation, non-officialCodex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-13

Source manifests: nietzsche.new_year_word

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