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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
vooral saai maar ronduit slecht, idk wa er goe aan is behalve mss 2 passages om de 100 paginas en de stijl is niet volledig afschuwelijk, wrs het slechtste filosofische werk dat ik al heb gelezen
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Fue de mis primeros libros en leer, definitivamente una mala opción por lo complicado que me fue seguir la narrativa, y más aún por el rico vocabulario, muchas palabras las cuales me detenían cada minuto para investigar su significado.
Tengo que leerlo de nuevo ya con más experiencia, solo falta conseguirlo de nuevo jajaja.
Tengo que leerlo de nuevo ya con más experiencia, solo falta conseguirlo de nuevo jajaja.
It feels a lot like reading for school to try to read this straight. It's intentionally obtuse and I think I got a lot more out of it reading cliff notes and summaries and Reddit posts that warned me too late that this might've not been a good first Nietzsche pick.
That said, there's a lot of neat ideas. And one very neat but unintentionally funny scene is Zarathustra comforting a dying man afraid of the devil, "don't worry my dude, there's no such thing"
That said, there's a lot of neat ideas. And one very neat but unintentionally funny scene is Zarathustra comforting a dying man afraid of the devil, "don't worry my dude, there's no such thing"
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I really liked the first part and it had some of the most thought provoking moments. I will need to reread this at a later date to fully understand the rest of the book as I feel like I zoomed through it.
Ne diyebilirim inanın bilmiyorum. Kitabı okuduktan sonra bile hakkında bir fikir oluşturmam zor, belki de başka bir zamanda tekrar denemeliyim.
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I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.There is a great deal of Nietzsche that I agree with, and hoards with which I vehemently do not. I've been accumulating quotes of his for five years now, quotes whose inherent lack of context made me like him more than I do now. I still love many of his phrases as much as I did before, but if we ever met, we would not like each other at all.
Despite that muddle, I am grateful that I came across his words while I was younger and in the full throes of depression, cynicism, and a frighteningly homicidal brand of solipsism. I didn't know the definition of that last word back then, but I was in desperate need of something both horribly dismal and blindingly bright, a joy that did not require avoidance of despair but looked it full in the face. The often contextualized and paraphrased Nietzsche with atheism, nihilism, and yet fierce and glorious fervor for the future seemed perfect back then.
To some extent, he's still perfect, but only in bits and pieces. The call for solitude and individualism is as refreshing as ever, the atheism is still in line with my sensibilities, and the breathtaking vaults and shuddering descents carried my heart along with them. However. While I did indeed run across his cry for the Superman, even going so far as to take to heart his 'Man is something that shall be over come,' I paid as much mind to his Superman as concerned my younger self's view of the world and the people in it as utterly worthless. Not until this reading did I fully realize Nietzsche's meaning; being as interested in social justice and, well, female as I am, there was little chance of me passing up all that elitism (and classism?) and condemnation of empathy and rapier dashes of virulent misogyny.
It's strange, though. Perhaps it is a sign of just how much time I spent mooning after Nietzsche, back when I took him in small doses, but I am especially conscious of the time period in which he wrote this. His decrying of the "mob" echoes my own views regarding oppressive ideologies, and I have to wonder how much of his rampant condemnation of popular mentality fell upon the people rather than the ideas they lived by. As for his abysmal portrayal of women, who knows what a healthy dose of feminism and exposure to such awesome thinkers as [a:Simone de Beauvoir|5548|Simone de Beauvoir|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1382722690p2/5548.jpg], [a:Hannah Arendt|12806|Hannah Arendt|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1222711954p2/12806.jpg], and so many others would have accomplished. Probably gotten rid of his 'creator's pregnancy' conceit (if you're going to slander, Nietzsche, back off from the ridiculously disproportionate appropriation please), if nothing else. Also, there is the matter of his one serious attempt at heterosexual love having been rejected right around the time of composition of this piece. It doesn't excuse him at all, but it does explain his vitriol some.
All of that above is wishful thinking, of course, but seeing as this is the enigmatic rhapsodizer on the subject of wishful thinking, it's more than merited. For all of Nietzsche's aggravating inegalitarianism, he captured the rapid fire oscillation between top of the world and descent into hell so perfectly, so utterly, and then crafted with it a raison d'être both deathly serious and blissfully rapturous. There's no small amount of nihilism in his dismissal of everything solid, everyone stationary, everything decrepit and outdated and finally after long last proved false, but there's a spitfire life to it that laughs at self-serving pandering and loves chaotic progress that I myself cannot forbear from adoring and making my own.
'This - is now my way: where is yours?' Thus I answered those who asked me 'the way'. For the way - does not exist!I shall keep this in mind, Nietzsche, if nothing else. Not all of what your Zarathustra spoke rings true to me, but you are one of the few who favored freedom over advice. For that, I am in your debt.
I am of today and of the has-been (he said then); but there is something in me that is of tomorrow and of the day-after-tomorrow and of the shall-be.
P.S. This particular edition was great. I have no clue about the quality of the translation, but the introduction and endnotes, endnotes that included all those untranslateable bits with as much explanation as possible, were indispensable.
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The last book I had to read for my undergrad and it truly almost took me out.