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Why does anyone prefer the postmodernist philosophers to Nietzsche?

Let me explain why you think that

>nothing matters, but I pretend that it does

Where to begin with Nietzsche? I'm going to the bookstore in an hour and want to get one of his books to get into his works.

What the fuck was his problem?
>EVERYONE BEFORE ME IS A MORON except Socrates and Pascal maybe
How can one guy be so dense?

For me it’s the genealogical method for the discovery of the origins of morals – intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

What have you done today to sublimate the will to power?

Does the affirmation of life destroy pessimism?

This guy was an artist

Pop philosophy started with this man. I am willing to claim that this man literally looked into the future, saw a bunch of pseuds reading Alain de Botton and smirking at their own presumed intelligence, and decided to jump on that train decades before it started. Now that his time has come, his ""deep"" """""ideas""""" are lauded and protected, and those wanting to know if concepts like the "death of god" are to be taken in a literal, historical, fictional, or otherwise sense are told that they are merely misinterpreting Neechee & that he probably meant something extremely specific and groundbreaking that is too deep for the common man to understand. He must have meant something, otherwise we would not be talking about him so much

>“While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshiping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane.”

Holy shit how can Christianity ever recover?

Why wouldn't you want to be a hero? Rise above the rest

I was asking because the first half of this paragraph makes the point nicely, but then it keeps going so I was just worried I missed the point.

>leave philosophy, all of the western philosophical tradition, psychology, philoligy, religion, poetry, social critique, acurate future predictions and my own biography with commentaries on my own work to me

Ok kids, where do I start with Nietzsche? I know this is awfully vague but I don't know anything about anything, I just want to start.