Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844--1900
27 Jun 2024 13:27
I read Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a freshman; it's striking how much Uncle Fritz improved in only a few short years.
- See also:
- Classical Antiquity (obsessed about)
- Joseph Campbell (who first led me to read Uncle Fritz)
- the Enlightenment (an acknowledged ancestor);
- Freud (a descendant)
- Futurism (vulgar Nietzsche on wheels)
- Jung
- Logical Positivism (not a descendant, but at times uncannily close; I'll attach the relevant quotations Some Day Real Soon Now)
- Moral Psychology and Naturalized Ethics
- the Renaissance (admired)
- Romanticists (repudiated ancestors)
- Spinoza
- Totaliatiarianism, Especially Its Intellectual and Social Roots
- Voltaire (to whom he dedicated Human, All-too-human)
- Recommended:
- By Nietzsche (as long as I'm offending his wraith, I might as well
go all out and pick favorites):
- The Gay Science
- Genealogy of Morals [which makes a lot more sense if you read the second essay first, and the first last]
- Twilight of the Idols
- The Antichrist
- Ecce Homo
- About Nietzsche:
- Arthur Danto, Nietzsche as Philosopher [but see the slashing attack, particularly on Danto's grasp of German (!) in Kaufmann's book, and passim throughout his translations]
- Walter Kaufmann, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
- John T. Wilcox, Truth and Value in Nietzsche; a Study of His Metaethics and Epistemology
- Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness [Mini-review]
- Disrecommended:
- The on-line translation of Thus Spake Zarathustra is the first one, and is simply appalling.
- To read:
- By Nietzsche:
- Untimely Meditations
- Human, All-too-human
- Dawn
- About Nietzsche:
- Babette E. Babich, Nietzsche's philosophy of science: reflecting on the ground of art and life [I hope I'm not alone in being irritated when people writing about philosophy of science don't know what niobium is.]
- Malcolm Bull, Anti-Nietzsche [NDPR review]
- Maudemarie Clark, Nietzsche on truth and philosophy
- Claudia Crawford, To Nietzsche: Dionysus, I love you! Ariadne. [Marvellous title, if nothing else!]
- Christoph Cox, Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation
- Adrian Del Caro, Nietzsche contra Nietzsche [Another great title]
- Paul Franco, Nietzsche's Enlightenment: The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
- Michael Allen Gillespie, Nietzsche's Final Teaching
- Etienne Gilson, The terrors of the year two thousand ["End of the World"; "Nietzsche, Friedrich"]
- Jacob Golomb and Robert S. Wistrich (eds.), Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?: On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy
- R. J. Hollingdale, Nietzsche
- Pierre Klossowski, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle
- David Farrel Krell and Donald L. Bates, The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image
- Thomas Mann
- Death in Venice
- Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Contemporary Events
- Freny Mistry, Nietzsche and Buddhism
- Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas [A good, and positive, Review in The Nation]
- Bernard Reginster, The Affirmation of Life: Nietzche on Overcoming Nihilism
- John Richardson, Nietzsche's Values
- Simon Robertson, Nietzsche and Contemporary Ethics
- Tracy B. Strong, Friedrich Nietzsche and the politics of transfiguration
- Seth Taylor, Left-wing Nietzscheans
- Daniel Tutt, How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche
- George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Culture, Religion, and Politics from Romanticism to Nietzsche
- Stefan Zweig, Master builders, a typology of the spirit