What does twisting free from conventional metaphysics have to do with the
art of his writing? Nietzsche wrote nothing without supreme
self-consciousness and specific intention--he wrote blood. For art itself
it is worthwhile. Reading Nietzsche does not necessarily mean divining the
meaning of his text in any sort of prescriptive manner, it means reading and
writing, it means reveling in his humor, his art, it means producing a
reading. Nietzsche may not twist free of conventional metaphysics in
Rorty's (who has never twisted free of anything in his life), Heidegger's,
and your, minds, but his words, at least for me hold magic in their
precision and art. What makes Nietzsche so much fun is that one can read
him so many ways.
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