Roy Jackson

This horribly written DIY Nietzsche book is actually semi decent! Luckily, the same speedreading technique you can use to take the edge off sentences like "He is certainly the most controversial and notorious philosopher to have lived, as well as being one of the world's most interesting and scintillating you will come across in the realms of philosophy at least" or "The fact that today you can attend Nietzsche conferences were [sic] he is discussed among serious and highly professional philosophers should be sufficient evidence that here we are talking about Nietzsche as a very serious philosopher indeed" is a good way of picking out all the cool weird facets of this unusual man's beautiful and disgusting ideas. There's a good concentration on Numinous Nietzsche, he of infinite recursion and "truth is what is psychologically bearable", with lesser looks into Religious Nietzsche and Joyful Nihilist Nietzsche and, weirdly, Empiricist Nietzsche. You could read The Gay Science instead, but you could also do worse.… (altro)