From: Tristich-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:52:06 EDT
Subject: Re: Some Remarks on reading Nietzsche


Dan Dzenkowski writes:

> At 07:04 PM 7/26/98 -0500, John T. Duryea wrote:
>  > For this reason, I pretty well stick with BGE for use on the
>  >list. N in his writing was experimenting and I believe BGE represents the
>  >pinnacle of his mature wisdom. But you are right about the difficulty in
>  >reading Nietzsche. One must constantly keep in mind he was writing for >a
>  very limited group.
>   
>  
>  I think this is a wrong move.
>  You speak of mature years let me quote Ecce Homo
>  Foreword sec. 4
>  "Within my writings my Zarathustra stands by itself.  I have with this book
>  given mankind the greatest gift that has ever been given it. With a voice
>  that speaks across millennia, it is not only the most exalted book that
>  exists, the actual book of the air of the heights...it is also the most
>  profoundest..."
>  
>  I missed you earlier discussion, so I may be out of line here.  But, it
>  seems to me that Zarathustra is often overlooked as the most comprehensive
>  exposition of his thought.  Reading and interpreting this book are also
more
>  difficult, but it is a book for all and none.  I think that any Nietzsche
>  scholar should spend most of their time in dealing with this work,
Nietzsche
>  even says himself that this is his greatest work.
>  I am sure that you knew this already.
>  
>  Dan
>  
Forget it, Dan. You have to understand that Engineer-man sticks to BGE because
he's read nothing else, and _that_ he only reads flash-card style.  Kelly
Lynch's remarks on reading Nietzsche are completely over his head.  Yet when
Engineer-man says that Nietzsche was writing for "a very limited group," he
means that Nietzsche was writing for Engineer-man alone.

Fritz


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