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jxcxbxlxw's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Only read Twilight of the Idols - will come back for The Antichrist at a later date.
lilitherary's review against another edition
i dont really have an adherence nor abhorrence for religion, namely christianity, to be able to “enjoy” this but bro can write beautifully.
Will update once I’ve processed this better. First Nietzsche so some of the stuff he writes definitely went over my head and I’ll have to come back to it once Im better read on him and philosophy in general.
Will update once I’ve processed this better. First Nietzsche so some of the stuff he writes definitely went over my head and I’ll have to come back to it once Im better read on him and philosophy in general.
ralowe's review against another edition
1.0
it's a struggle to hold nietzsche in the same space as a resistance to empire, because his allegiances resist being parsed, not that people need to be quantified, but when trying to do history it's a struggle to be coherent in providing an accout of civilizational discontents or what is found to be urgently distressing in the social order. nietzsche then becomes bracingly incoherent as he appears to contradict, passionately promoting what he passionately despises. all that appears consistent is the passion itself, the manic nerd animus. i'm not going to knock the hustle of what's obviously admirable in that. but the jury's out for me in a way that feels easier to indefinitely never have to herd them back in. this is bolstered by the philosophical tradition of people seeming to bend over backwards to bring the jury, judge and executioner of nietzsche back in to give the unsurprising verdict. so, for now, nietzsche's going in the i-like-that-one-song-but-please-you're-an-asshole category. in the context of empire it's just in bad taste for me to fatally crawl through the irradiated dilithium core to figure out nietzsche's shit for him. does that make me a fascist for comely rhetorical approach? i think knowing how to talk to people is key, if not the whole game. it's a big key, the one that really defines the silhouette and bulk of the whole key ring, like when you put it in a pocket. to make this legible would be a capacious task my dignity shall not bear. i'm up for his obliteration of morality, but i'm left with a question mark shadow too big of what is "justice" under imperial terror. a shadow of an unevenly punctuated shape over the lived dayscape of drastically sudden microclimatic shifts that become impossible to middle-dress for. i very simply can't be all "fuck the weak." i can't be that girl, or rather can't be the man's mute girl-shaped social accompaniment. i'm taking my wrath out in my one-starring for that noise, plus: omg he hates women. i've spent most of my life avoiding nietzsche because i overheard that fact long ago. it's not ad hominem. it's hard to play it off when your climbwalling his spitefully ill-positioned words for purchase. i get why people like him, because you can wistfully manufacture anti-authoritarian fantasies from his extreme impropriety, but. so he earns acclaim for broadcasting impropriety in a venue where there couldn't ever possibly be any criminal repercussions? i always felt guilty for liking joyce. they should have a race to see who's more misogynist. it's distracting. i've never read george sand but i liked judy davis' performance in impromptu in the '90s so give her a break (i mean george not judy), you lost me. dude, he's such a bro. do only jocks read this? am i against ideas? i'm considering it. i'm against libertarianism, that's my problem. dang it, i'm going to have to look elsewhere for critiques on morality; the cat's a little to comfortable in his body and yes, i "get it," victorian mores are the cultural context yatta yatta yatta. "impropriety" is my polite term for a sensibility derived from the social margins and i suppose i want something more material than a hypothetical de facto solidarity, interculturally speaking, and that all the hub bub for this guy feels analogous to someone 911-ing a sketchy car in a fancy neighborhood. it's difficult to care. and the narrative of how the human approaches solidarity with the margins through falling in dereliction of victorian civilian axiologies is too exhaustingly condescending to find dismaying (or maybe i've just been grooming myself to be closed to nietzsche all my life. i also dislike g 'n' r.). for overkill, how about a bro summary question with a deflated rejoinder: "would i drink beer with him or mark twain?" see, that's the reason i don't drink.
jakej's review against another edition
5.0
Simply the greatest philosopher ever. Obviously there's still much here I don't understand, but no one packs more meaning into fewer (and more beautiful) words than Nietzsche. 'Morality as Anti-Nature' is the greatest summary of his essential character I've seen.
nathaneck's review against another edition
challenging
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inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5