I just finished reading “Zarathustra’s Secret” by Joachim Kohler. I’m thinking of reading “Nietzsche’s System” by John Richardson, or “Nietzsche and the Feminine” (a coll. of essays)?
Check out some Emerson and the Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). As well as some Thucydidies.
Why not hit the source material for Nietzsche?
Read Thucydides in the 1980’s,and Emerson in college. Thanks anyway!
Delueze’s Nietzsche and Philosophy
read it.
Heraclitus
Klossowski’s Nietzsche and the Viscious Circle
Derrida’s Nietzsche’s Styles
If you’ve read these, try going on amazon and doing a search for Nietzsche in the listmania’s. There’s some pretty hardcore people on there who offer lists of Nietzsche books along with small comments on how good it is and the books main focus.
Nietzsche books I haven’t read, but plan to in the near future.
Jasper’s “Nietzsche: an introduction to the understanding…”
Salome’s “Nietzsche”
Safranski’s “Nietzsche: A philosophical Biography”
Read,except for Lou’s book,it strikes me as weak.
Have you read any Aristotle? (Nichomachian Ethics)
In him I found a sort of cure for Neitzsche worship.
…An Apollonian philosopher of strength.
Plato…
I’m not a big fan, but a few months ago at ILP, Spinoza was the philosopher to know. They all claimed that many of Nietzsche’s Ideas were simply Spinoza’s only draped in poetry.
It seems like it’s time for you to branch out away from Nietzsche though, maybe give his primary works a quick read through again, trace the ideas you’ve come to understand, and watch his theories evolve from his first books to his last, and then move on.
Yes - on to Heidegger! But only when you’ve got to the bottom of Nietzsche.
Nothing to say here.
Is Heidegger a much tougher read than Nietzsche?
I read Spinoza in the 1980’s,(at work). Most Nietzsche exegesis contains ample amounts of quotes of Nietzsches’,(and unpublished letters and writings) rendering rereading him,Nietzsche,redundant. Sauwelios,I knew you’d reccomend Heidegger. I’ve skimmed him. I do not see him as the heir apparent to Nietzsche.
I think you are mistaken there. I think you should read The Will to Power. Indeed, I was thinking of certain chapters of The Will to Power when I spoke of “the bottom of Nietzsche”. I was thinking of his epistemology.
Perhaps you should skim him again, i.e., skim the layer under the one you’ve skimmed. You may also want to read (about) Leo Strauss.
As for works on Nietzsche, I recommend Peter Berkowitz’s “Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist”, George A. Morgan’s “What Nietzsche Means”, and the bundle (collection of essays) “Nietzsche, philosophy and the arts”, edited by Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell and Daniel W. Conway.
I’ve read Morgan and Berkowitz’s books. Will get around to Heidegger soon? Not in the mood for “dasein” right now. Forgot about Leo Strauss.I’ve read all of Nietzsce,including, The will to power,twice.
Stephen Metcalf’s collection Hammer of the Gods (Creation Books) contains a great introductory chapter. Very fit for men of knowledge:
‘Filtering these points through the moment, I begin to remember what I wanted in all those times of crisis. The sight of gleaming knives and forcepts on the psychological operating table. Those times of crisis themselves. All those restless, bitter days; days of blinding sickness; all those loveless nightmares, for all time. Memory is fluid. Drifting through the Eternal Return, I slip into the madman’s skin…’
- Stephen Metcalf, Hammer of the Gods p26
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Why not check out some of the members of the Kyoto School, particularly Keiji Nishitani? They were strongly influenced by Nietzsche, though many of them have the same problem as Heidegger.