A Nietzsche Blitzkrieg
2025 marks the 30th year since I first read Nietzsche, significant therefore to give him a very inscrutable hearing, amongst the garden of everything else.
The Free Spirit series includes Human, All Too Human with its 2 additions The Wanderer and His Shadow and Mixed Opinions and Maxims, Daybreak and The Gay Science. -- these are slow books to read, but the following must be taken in larger doses to achieve completions more swiftly:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals
The Twilight of the Idols
and The Antichrist
It is also my approach to use the Delphi for him with Intros by his sister, and correspondence he had between George Brandes, ahh his Letters, to see the human side of him!!
for secondary materials, most of what I have is in non-adjustablly small font size, so the secondary material will be less diversified, and perhaps more cohesive with works written by Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, Julian Young, and Laurence Lampert. Along with more iconoclastic appreciations from George Bataille and Stefan Zweig.
What I value in Nietzsche is perspectivism and self-overcoming, he is a lifelong companion for both those who continually battle themselves, and those who have left that behind and need to keep it behind them.
Kindred spirits abound with this guy, in my books, they range from thinkers he had a complicated regard for as in Socrates a la Plato, Presocratics, Greek tragedians, Christianity, a dash of Buddhism, Schopenhauer, Kant, Spinoza, the French Moralists, Pascal, the enlightenment, Goethe, Laurence Sterne, Wagner, and after him for me that is are such people as Shestov, Cioran, Camus, Heidegger and Foucault.
No other thinker has given me the thrills this guy has given, and it is time for the bombing to begin, for truth bombs from mixed perspectives, from the shattered prism reflections that was cast upon the publishing world, and the millions of individual minds consuming them, and the billions who never read him and have regardless fully conceptualized prejudices about them. Like what I'm doing here hehe.
When we can only stomach one point of view and condemn all the rest, Nietzsche will be tough sailing, but for those who love provocative thoughts presented with elan, and espirit, Nietzsche is a companion for life. For a more positive thinker Emerson will suit just fine, and Nietzsche appreciated him too btw. All connected when you add enough parts.
The Free Spirit series includes Human, All Too Human with its 2 additions The Wanderer and His Shadow and Mixed Opinions and Maxims, Daybreak and The Gay Science. -- these are slow books to read, but the following must be taken in larger doses to achieve completions more swiftly:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals
The Twilight of the Idols
and The Antichrist
It is also my approach to use the Delphi for him with Intros by his sister, and correspondence he had between George Brandes, ahh his Letters, to see the human side of him!!
for secondary materials, most of what I have is in non-adjustablly small font size, so the secondary material will be less diversified, and perhaps more cohesive with works written by Walter Kaufmann, R.J. Hollingdale, Julian Young, and Laurence Lampert. Along with more iconoclastic appreciations from George Bataille and Stefan Zweig.
What I value in Nietzsche is perspectivism and self-overcoming, he is a lifelong companion for both those who continually battle themselves, and those who have left that behind and need to keep it behind them.
Kindred spirits abound with this guy, in my books, they range from thinkers he had a complicated regard for as in Socrates a la Plato, Presocratics, Greek tragedians, Christianity, a dash of Buddhism, Schopenhauer, Kant, Spinoza, the French Moralists, Pascal, the enlightenment, Goethe, Laurence Sterne, Wagner, and after him for me that is are such people as Shestov, Cioran, Camus, Heidegger and Foucault.
No other thinker has given me the thrills this guy has given, and it is time for the bombing to begin, for truth bombs from mixed perspectives, from the shattered prism reflections that was cast upon the publishing world, and the millions of individual minds consuming them, and the billions who never read him and have regardless fully conceptualized prejudices about them. Like what I'm doing here hehe.
When we can only stomach one point of view and condemn all the rest, Nietzsche will be tough sailing, but for those who love provocative thoughts presented with elan, and espirit, Nietzsche is a companion for life. For a more positive thinker Emerson will suit just fine, and Nietzsche appreciated him too btw. All connected when you add enough parts.
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