Nietzsche Apostle (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)

And so should you be, and this book will give another perspective. The more you can read about Nietzsche, the closer you get to the truth, or at least the truth of constantly questioning your own dogma.

On The Necessary Contradictions of Nietzsche’s Philosophy: As with any and all pioneer thinkers in any and all fields of inquiry, Nietzsche of necessity had to frequently contradict himself and at times miss the mark with his allegedly diametrically opposed constructs. If such a pioneer, as he most certainly jumpstarted the psychoanalytic tradition, is too careful with their thoughts, too contrived with their words, too linear in their thinking, many accidental profound discoveries risk remaining in so many shadows of too-careful-contemplation and over-cognizant facts-and-figuring in lieu of the sensorial gut-and-hunch knowing. The kind of knowing that offers perhaps the most comprehensive contextually aware truths that shine so much brilliant light on mere fragments-of-fact that tell us so little. Many readers of Nietzsche can get caught up on the rusty nails, failing to see his greater feat—that he hit the nail on the head while mounting the bigger picture to the wall of history. They fail to see that, despite his ridicule of women and his glorifying of war—the transcendence of slavish priestly life-denying morality by common folks would be the very remedy against war, petty gossip, mass pathology, resentiment, decadence in all its forms. The balance of power would be restored. We could, each in our own magnificence, having thrown off the cloak of lack and mask of denial, together combine our individual greatnesses, our Deleuzian Productive Desires, into one grand synthesis. The brilliant descendants of Nietzsche—despite all their own contradictions—embraced his vision and spread his light, reflecting and refracting its rays in more relevant directions characterizing the circumstances of their own times. If they, like so many today, cancelled this great mind, the profound spirit, a critical genealogy would have been stopped dead in its tracks. A genealogy that would lead to many psychological remedies that would come to heal and empower so many. ABCrane

Adds exactly zero to understanding Nietzsche or "Nietzsche scholarship". Deleuze wrote a concise little book about him about forty years ago that blows profit-seeking drivel like this out of the water. While I'm not one to dismiss Nietzsche's thought on the grounds of his illness, the fact remains that syphilis did actually make people nutty, sometimes megalomaniacal, with Nietzsche being a likely example. This Sloterdijk ignores as though Nietzsche was a purely "linguistic" event, a stock-in-trade perspective of Semiotexte authors, obviously. Two stars for being more coherent than Zizek.