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Ich kenne die Deutche sprach ohne schwierigkeit, best english translation that I am aware of. have read Untermeier tanslation, a disaster, Kaufmann with all due respect too devoted, is OK if nothing else available, but Hollingsdale is a masterpiece, a true work of art. Sometimes it seems to me to excell the very original.
Salut. Peter
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I do not recommend this book if you are a casual reader, you will misunderstand nearly every line of it. The Gems found in nearly every aphorism of this book must be decoded with years of research and a comprehensive understanding of Nietzsche's entire philosophy. Many will not admit this, or do not understand this because they are thrown off by the fact that Nietzsche was not a systemitizer.
I, however, do not wish to discourage anyone from reading this book, in fact I wish everyone would, but without a comprehensive understanding of Nietzsche you will be confused and most likely adopt an incorrect view of Nietzsche's philosophy.
With this said, this is one of the most beautiful achievements of man. From the very first aphorism, one is thrown into the agony of having to question everything one thinks. The beauty of Nietzsche lies not only in his prose, but also in the fact that in reading him, one feels as if one is reading a more elegant and articulate version of the struggle that goes on within. This book will be mirror for many, a mirror that makes the ugly beautiful.
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Be careful not to read this too directly. Doing so can make you misunderstand too much. This book operates by association, or more specifically, the associative, and this is the reason it is so powerful. It is reflexive in so far as this operation becomes its subject. If one bears in mind Nietzsche's influential training as a philologist and the burgeoning field of linguistics in the 19thc, as well as an aesthetics of 'performativity' tied to the 'force' of artistic subjectivity in amongst some of those of Nietzsche's circle, such as Richard Wagner, then the allegory he employs can be argued as a kind of acute armature for exploring the obliquity of thought tied to symbols, statements, metaphores, etc, but it is that act of exploration that constitutes the work, not the facts of allegory. This is his persuasiveness, and it comes from Nietszche's study of rhetoric, classics, etc. It is a book about forces, not power, discipline, history, or even subjectivity. The forces or valency of allegory and concept - an immanence within thought - the book does nothing else. The catchy phrases that make it so memorable serve this function. This is not his best work though, as much as it is a step above the 'Birth of Tragedy' which rightly got him ridiculed. A lot of fun and great for broody teenagers.
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This was my first delving into the wonderful world of Nietsche. Very good and very interesting. I've had a passing interest in Philosophy for a while and have gotten into it deeper the past few months and this is a good choice, I feel, for anyone just starting to delve into the philosophy game.
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"According to Nietzsche, God created everything but then died sometime in the past out of pity for humanity's imperfections."
Whoever wrote this has clearly not even come close to understanding not only this book but Nietzsche as a whole. Just because it says "God is dead" doesn't mean that when he was "Alive" he was an actual magical being that "Created everything".
There are many good reviews already on here so all I'd like to say is beware of any reviewers, like the one stated above, who openly state that they had difficulty understanding the text. I'm not saying it's an easy read, just that if you put the work in (Read and re-read if necessary) you will get the most out of this book. Plenty of people have trouble understanding many great works, that isn't a sign of anything lacking in the text itself.
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