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The Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer
by Friedrich Nietzsche

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  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8419612?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>I recently lost this book at a party that--don't ask why I brought it but--I got drunk at and since I read like 85% of it I'm considering it "read". Truth be told, these days I've been boozy a little more than I'd like to admit which is not the best state to be reading philosophy. However, I read (present tense) Nietzsche more to peer into the mind of a tragic figure and someone whom I have some affection for, intellectually, of course. He's indisputably more radical than most of what passes for radical thinking today and I really appreciate that. I really appreciate someone who can take something as good and wholesome as Equal Rights and just disparage the shit out of it, not because I hate equal rights but just because I appreciate people who truly think outside of the box. Man, I have to get into Heidegger soon but that's gonna be such a headache. I seriously need to be in another place in my life both physically and figuratively to start reading Heidegger. Maybe I'll start reading <i>about</i> Heidegger. Anyway, you'll probably see a lot more practical reading out of me for the next several months but who's keeping track? 
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<br/>Read this book and enjoy. The subtitle to the former is "How to Philosophize with a Hammer." Fucking, really. I mean, who can beat that? What intellectual has enough balls to title books like that and still be taken seriously? Anyway, it's like this: I recall this quote from the latter book and it sums up the story pretty well. Something like, "There was only one Christian in the history of the world and he died on the cross." You sort of get to the kernel of the story without delving too much into details which is, I think, what you and I want right now. 
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recommended for: Fans of Nietzsche/Non-fans of Nietzsche
status: Read in November, 2007

I recently lost this book at a party that--don't ask why I brought it but--I got drunk at and since I read like 85% of it I'm considering it "read". Truth be told, these days I've been boozy a little more than I'd like to admit which is not the best state to be reading philosophy. However, I read (present tense) Nietzsche more to peer into the mind of a tragic figure and someone whom I have some affection for, intellectually, of course. He's indisputably more radical than most of what passes for radical thinking today and I really appreciate that. I really appreciate someone who can take something as good and wholesome as Equal Rights and just disparage the shit out of it, not because I hate equal rights but just because I appreciate people who truly think outside of the box. Man, I have to get into Heidegger soon but that's gonna be such a headache. I seriously need to be in another place in my life both physically and figuratively to start reading Heidegger. Maybe I'll star...more

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message 1: by Jeannette

10/30/2007 12:29PM

I love when Nietzsche makes jabs at other philosophers or relatively important historical figures.