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Monday, November 7 - 7:41pmSanction this postReply
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Nietzsche rocks.  Not always right, certainly, but god, he's so freakin' good.

From the same work:
"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters.  Coldly it lies, too, and this lie comes from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'."




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Monday, November 7 - 7:46pmSanction this postReply
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Luke-
What do you think of Kaufman as biographer/translator of Nietzsche?




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Tuesday, November 8 - 7:47pmSanction this postReply
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I think Kaufmann's translations flow better than anyone else's I've read, and, from my limited knowledge of German, they represent Nietzsche's texts pretty accurately.  As for Kaufmann's biographing and interpretation, from what little of that I read, I think it leaves something to be desired, though until I have delved more into the secondary literature I can't say for sure what that something is.

In terms of secondary material on Nietzsche's thought, I'm a fan of Robert Solomon and Lester Hunt, both of whom I referenced extensively (along with Kaufmann's translations) in writing my Bachelor's thesis.




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