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A review by sssummer
Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche
5.0
I thought this was great! It has such low reviews and I'm kinda shook tbh.
To be fair, I'm fresh off a semester studying Nietzche's work, which undoubtedly means I have fresh in my mind the context to understand these aphorisms in (sidenote: putting "Aphorisms" in the title when it's a book by Nietzsche is ultimately redundant.) (off-topic sidenote: holy shit as I'm typing this I'm realizing I might have repeatedly forgotten the S in his name on my final paper. Oh my God, I would never recover from that.)
In terms of his actual ideas, I definitely don't agree with a lot of them. But, there are always erudite and worth thinking about. The general tone is very clinical and cynical (great Xmas eve pick!). Interestingly, a lot of passages actually reminded me of some of Plath's journal entries. They seem to come to a lot of the same conclusions.
Of course, there were also passages that I did totally agree with. A lot of his introspection/observations are really good, poignant, and worth writing down somewhere else. I particularly liked "Caution of free spirits". Many of the aphorisms are actually, and surprisingly,... not clinical and cold?
I think this is a handy little edition, and I'm glad I own it. I plan on rereading it (once I've read more of his other stuff). It's the perfect little thing to keep in a purse.
To be fair, I'm fresh off a semester studying Nietzche's work, which undoubtedly means I have fresh in my mind the context to understand these aphorisms in (sidenote: putting "Aphorisms" in the title when it's a book by Nietzsche is ultimately redundant.) (off-topic sidenote: holy shit as I'm typing this I'm realizing I might have repeatedly forgotten the S in his name on my final paper. Oh my God, I would never recover from that.)
In terms of his actual ideas, I definitely don't agree with a lot of them. But, there are always erudite and worth thinking about. The general tone is very clinical and cynical (great Xmas eve pick!). Interestingly, a lot of passages actually reminded me of some of Plath's journal entries. They seem to come to a lot of the same conclusions.
Of course, there were also passages that I did totally agree with. A lot of his introspection/observations are really good, poignant, and worth writing down somewhere else. I particularly liked "Caution of free spirits". Many of the aphorisms are actually, and surprisingly,... not clinical and cold?
I think this is a handy little edition, and I'm glad I own it. I plan on rereading it (once I've read more of his other stuff). It's the perfect little thing to keep in a purse.