Posted by Declan on June 21, 2006, at 18:03:22
In reply to Echoes of Nietzsche? » Michael83, posted by Tamar on June 21, 2006, at 16:08:42
Not that I know anything much about him, apart from having read Ecce Homo, which was astonishing and brilliant and crazy. But I would *like* to know more about him. He keeps cropping up...in the idea that Freud is domesticated Nietzche with something (what?) left out.
In the 1880s he said "He who overthrows us is strong; he who raises us up is divine; he who heightens our perceptions is profound."
(Where's that from?)
Prophets,of whatever sort, are interesting.And then also this about him...'Then his tone became that of a solitary man who knows he is no longer being heard: more strident, more virulent, more contemptuous. Balanced essays were replaced by aphorisms, thrown out like orders--a medium he borrowed from the French writers of the C18. At the end madness revealed itself, in the biting cleverness of his utterences, as in the precision with which they were made.'
Umm, I tried Thus Spake Zarathustra. Why couldn't I finish it?
Declan
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