But seriously, how does one "study" Nietzsche? Don't you just get a message
then move on, carrying it with you like a spare tire in case of an
existential flat? The Gay Science is one of the finest reasons to get out
of bed in the morning, but study it academically? The Author would cringe.
Isn't it purely ironic to try to ferret out what N really means, given his
deliberate and practiced multiplicity? And this is particularly true if you
are studying the frankenstienish "Will to Power". If anything, it would be
useful in some cases to briefly show what he doesn't mean, but Bataille and
others have done that well enough.
I've always though of Nietzsche as fuel or explosives to be used when
burning constraining bridges to the past or blowing up log jams in the
mind. As the man says:
"I am no man; I am dynamite." - EH
ps. sorry if you've "been over this before", but maybe some of us newbies
can have it out as you watch, perhaps bemused, perhaps in pain - in which
case I suggest you turn away from the spectacle of us standing here in the
flaming surf of our naive projects.
>To all the new folks on the list:
>
> I suggest to all of you that you turn away while the corrupting
>tincture of Nietzschean philosophy can still be washed away with a cold
>shower and Aquinas. Nietzsche's philosophy is merely that of the absurd
>wheel of fortune. Once you get caught in its spokes, then you either go
>mad like N. himself or you become a petulant, fatuous grump like most of
>the veterans on this list. Nietzsche's philosophy makes people old and
>haggard before they even have to make their first mortage payment.
>
>Tootles,
>
>Paul S. Rhodes
>
>
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