Status Updates From Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psy...

I never got the gist of eternal recurrence before. Kaufmann links it to Kant’s Categorical Imperative in a provocative and shocking manner that opens certain mental floodgates. Very interesting. I’m about to embark on the “Antichrist” section and bracing myself…

Certain things coming together, fibers of light. And myths banished. In reading this book, light is shed on other philosophers: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Spinoza. A lot to read. You grow sick of reading about “will to power” and then refreshed again, then sick again, and on and on…

On the last chapter! I’ve been reading this book on Saturday mornings since DECEMBER!

The “will to power” concept is central and yet I tire of reading about it. I want to go back to the crispy, plucky aphoristic diversity of thought shown elsewhere by Nietzsche and leave the big central ideas alone. But that’s not what this book purports to be, it seems.

Reading the 1968 vintage edition from a library. The pages are so fragile and are literally covered with underlinings and notes. So, I ordered what will hopefully be a cleaner used copy. I’m going further into being a book nerd, a bookworm. This book is feeling like a good next step after reading some of Nietzsche’s works.

“all joy wants eternity— wants deep, wants deep eternity”

If you understood Nietzsche by reading him directly bully for you, but I need him explained to me as if I were an illiterate child and this book is absolutely amazing and I wish I had discovered it far earlier in life.