nietz as norway/ yah, sure- youbetcha!!!

henry sholar (H_SHOLAR@marta.uncg.edu)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 13:41:59 -0500 (EST)

LR sez and worthy of repeat:
Interestingly, most of those who are named in these high-flying
overpassings are folks to whom Nietzsche feels some affinity, that it
might be to Shakespeare or Goethe or the Vedantas that some would hope to
compare Zarathustra, all of which are otherwise usually praised or treated
with great interest. These are not the rejected but those embraced for
comparison, the dead peers to whom Nietzsche casts his challange. He
treats these critical favorites to the full impact of his ironic existence
that makes his buffoonery so wonderfully comic. No hagiographics needed
here to abjudicate some academic glass bead game that decides poetic
priority. No matter for approval either that overthrows this pantheon in
these extravagant gestures to which I append a citation further along in
the same section;
"The psychological problem in the type Zarathustra is how he that says
No and does No to an unheard-of degree, to everything to which one has so
far said Yes, can nevertheless be the opposite of a No-saying spirit"

Say yah,
Leonardo Raggo//\\//\\
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dear Leonardo,
a fine comment. reminds me that as high schooler
we passed "the prophet" around to mates and lovers;
then, as collegiate come back and ask for (eternal return of) Gibran
back and infect with Zarathustra. and we would make nietz
our own--- thanks to kaufmann, and then grow out of
kaufmann's nietz and take up heidegger's and kofmann's
and nehemas' and on and on--- and as we change we see
more of the infinite story that nietz. planted as his seed.

so , whether i try to box nietz into a heidegger tale, as i do at times,
or mr. rhodes tries his droll interventions on minutiae
or "surfaces" and logocentric orthodoxies--
- it is good to take the long range and slower
view often times and see that the nietz texts we
appreciate are alive in many ways, and it is always
our depth that is challenged, not nietz's.

thanks,
kindest regards,
hen

(ps) here's a quest: nietz on "leadership"
anyone have clues or interests?
he certainly disdained "disciples"

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