From: Tristich-AT-aol.com Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:07:47 EDT Subject: Re: The Higher man vs Overman Dan Djenkowsky writes: > The way he develops the concept of > Dionysius as he progresses as a writer, and his ideas on Socrates are the > only things that I really liked out of that book. That's most of it, I suppose. > [Ecce Homo] is where I started reading Nietzsche and then I > read Z under the direction of my friend and mentor Dr. Thomas Steinbuch the > author of A Commentary on Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. > Yes, Yes and Yes again. That's ok. But Gill doesn't have a Dr. Steinbuch. > Nietzsche tells himself his story, you think Ecce > is fragmented and hard to understand, No, that's what you said. I said it should be put on the "questionable book" list. But then I didn't have a Dr. Steinbuch either. > what about Gay Science? What can you > draw from that initially. In a sophomore philosophy class, we read a little > out of that book and they tried to tell us what the eternal return and will > to power were based on that book. You can't understand any of that from the > gay Science, and it is difficult to pull it out of BG&E, but easy to find it > in Ecce Homo. Well, I havn't found any of them to be really easy. > Fine, I will say that Deleuze is the best. Kauffman is a fFeudain obsessed > Nietzsche interpreter. Nehemas doesn't get the point. Ivan Soll, gets a > few things right, and really has an edge on the Schoppenhaurian and Hegelian > connection, Tom Steinbuch is really good at getting into the meaning behind > Ecce. Sarah Koffman is good as well, though not all that thought provoking, > or even clear (relying on Truth and Lie in an extramoral sense gets you into > a bit of trouble), Schrift has a good, solid understanding, but tries to > relate Nietzsche to the postmodern movement, and I am not sure if this is > totally correct. Luc Ferry and Alian Renault are rediculous, and should not > even be read (use Nietzsche against Nietzsche?). Bataille is interesting, > though he is kinda crazy. Heidegger is not all that insightful into > NIetzsche, more into Heidegger, at least that is what Ivan Soll tells me > since I dont' know much Heidegger. Haven't read Danto, or Derrida, or much > Foucalut. Here are a few things I have read, so I guess for a 20 year old > Junior, that puts me at sophomore level. Thanks for reminding me in what a > pitiful intellectual state I am in. I will return to reading about Diogenes > of Sinope, here is a real character, the dog men are indeed very interesting. Much better. Fritz --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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