Coming up with the 5 minute "Cliff's Notes of the Cliff's Notes" of something an author spent many months if not longer on is something that always must be wrestled with when prepping to go out and exhort the masses to contribute to the rent and utility payments. Been There/Done That, it never gets easy.
I attended Michael Tanner’s lectures on Nietzsche when I was an undergraduate and they were excellent. He gave one the impression that much of what passed for academic philosophy was mere parlour games, and that there was more to philosophy- and life itself- than that. He also gave short courses on Schopenhauer and Adorno, as well as philosophical aesthetics, which was his main preoccupation. He was also fascinated by Wagner, and wrote a very good book on him, as well as opera reviews for the Spectator. Early in his career he was in FR Leavis’s circle. He could be entertainingly rude about people he disapproved of. (This was not a short list).
I have actually tried to read, twice, the slim volume you mentioned. I may have launched it across the room, an extreme response given my reverence for books. Emblematic of my density. I will try once more. A challenging read with my Sunday morning coffee; his thoughts, as explained by you Katja, even made sense to me.
It may come as no surprise that philosophy is not really my bag ,however I'm glad it exists and that people far more clever than myself can interpret the various nuances and meanings.
You did mention the nazis used various phrases and statements from his work in a selective form ,could this be seen as a form of popularism .Good to read now I've finished my 12K morning run .
Coming up with the 5 minute "Cliff's Notes of the Cliff's Notes" of something an author spent many months if not longer on is something that always must be wrestled with when prepping to go out and exhort the masses to contribute to the rent and utility payments. Been There/Done That, it never gets easy.
I attended Michael Tanner’s lectures on Nietzsche when I was an undergraduate and they were excellent. He gave one the impression that much of what passed for academic philosophy was mere parlour games, and that there was more to philosophy- and life itself- than that. He also gave short courses on Schopenhauer and Adorno, as well as philosophical aesthetics, which was his main preoccupation. He was also fascinated by Wagner, and wrote a very good book on him, as well as opera reviews for the Spectator. Early in his career he was in FR Leavis’s circle. He could be entertainingly rude about people he disapproved of. (This was not a short list).
I have actually tried to read, twice, the slim volume you mentioned. I may have launched it across the room, an extreme response given my reverence for books. Emblematic of my density. I will try once more. A challenging read with my Sunday morning coffee; his thoughts, as explained by you Katja, even made sense to me.
It may come as no surprise that philosophy is not really my bag ,however I'm glad it exists and that people far more clever than myself can interpret the various nuances and meanings.
You did mention the nazis used various phrases and statements from his work in a selective form ,could this be seen as a form of popularism .Good to read now I've finished my 12K morning run .