>Besides Kaufmann (who is the best), I also suggest that you read works by a
>philosopher named Danto. Esp. one called "Nietzsche As Philosopher". He was
>a student of Kaufmann (I think)
>Rich
(1) Here's what Kaufmann has to say about Danto's NIETZSCHE AS PHILOSOPHER:
"A hasty study, full of old misconceptions, new mistranslations, and
unacknowledged omissions in quotations. The context of the snippets cited
is systematically ignored, and no effort is made to consider even most of
what Nietzsche wrote on any given subject." (THE PORTABLE NIETZSCHE, p. 24)
(2) What Kaufmann has to say about Nietzsche can be worth attending to, but
he was a pioneer in Nietzsche studies in English and worked perhaps too
hard to make Nietzsche philosophically "respectable." It seems to me that
a number of treatments now surpass Kaufmann in philosophical
sophistication, Nehamas (NIETZSCHE: LIFE AS LITERATURE), and Staten
(NIETZSCHE'S VOICE), to name but two.
(3) BTW, what Danto has to say about Nietzsche can be worth attending to as
well--Kaufmann's abuse is sadly all-too-typical of his treatment of other
scholars--though one would do well to read Danto's claims with a very
critical eye. Danto is a very interesting philosopher coming out of the
analytic tradition who has written on an extremely wide variety of topics:
philosophy of history, aesthetics, and mysticism, among others. He
received his undergraduate degree at Wayne State and his Ph.D. at Columbia.
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