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Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde: Enough with the Civilization vs. Nature!
After a month of philosophical texts, I was incredibly pleased to read a nice streamlined work of fiction, and not be forced to decipher cryptic meanings and struggle with my own moral opinions. I’ve read Stevenson before, and was pleased that I enjoyed the story a second time, but an unfortunate after-effect is how much […]
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Frankenstein
Yes, this is ridiculously late, and I apologize for disrupting the flow of posts on Nietzsche but I feel that it is important to get these thoughts down. Frankenstein is such a curious tale/story, that I wonder why there aren’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →
The Genealogy of Morals
I’ve noticed an unsurprising trend on the blog posts for this book. It appears as though members of the class (including myself) do not take fondly to Nietzsche’s style of writing. I could write the entire post on how inconsiderate Nietzsche was in the delivery of his philosophical arguments and ideas. But I won’t do that, I’m sure […]
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Nietzsche
Nietzsche is definitely a tough read. It’s dense, ideas flying everywhere, and a sense of anti-everything pervades the three essays in “On the Genealogy of Morals”. His ideas of the anti-foundation, and the way his writing style is one which … Continue reading → Continue reading →
“The Cooked Cat”
I recently translated one of the Argentine writer Roberto Arlt’s very first short stories: “El gato cocido,” from 1926. Arlt is hardly known outside of Latin America–indeed, outside of Argentina–and little of his work is translated. But it’s worth a … Continue reading →
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hope
There’s no doubt that that Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals is, as its subtitle announces, “a polemic” (13). Nietzsche rages against Western (so-called) civilization and the palpable sense of claustrophobia, defeat, sickness, and enervation in which we find … Continue reading →
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Nietzsche and How He Ruined My Weekend
I feel like Nietzsche has accomplished the difficult task of surpassing Plato as the most complex text we’ve read this semester. I may have made the false assumption that as the books came closer to our era, they would be more contemporary, and thus easier to comprehend. But it appears that once again, I am […]
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Thoughts on Nietzsche
In my opinion, reading Nietzsche was a bit of a task for me. To be honest, I don’t really find much enjoyment in reading philosophical texts. Perhaps it’s just difficult for me to understand what the philosophers are trying to … Continue reading → Continue reading →
On the Genealogy of Morals
To start off this week I read the wrong book… So I’ll be catching up as quickly as possible. You could probably imagine my surprise. For a while I thought Nietzsche was Freud… you can feel the confusion for the first part of the lecture. So Freud is another blog for another week.
But alas, there […]
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Nietzsche
I found that understanding Nietzsche is as hard as spelling or pronouncing his name. Professor Jill, thank you so much for that lecture because I understand him… or at least kind of. Do I agree with Nietzsche though? WELL given … Continue reading → Continue reading →
