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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

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Title: We Philologists

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Description: Notes from 1875 for an unfinished meditation on his own profession. Nietzsche questions why scholars study the Greeks at all and what antiquity can still teach the modern world.

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