/lit/ - Literature

>tfw listening to people in college courses discuss Neech
Why is Nietzsche taught in modern colleges? It is unbearable to hear these pseuds and women cry about how Nietzsche has a ‘big ego’ or is ‘racist’ and ‘anti-semitic’, and ‘elitist’. These people are the very resentful crypto-Christian herd-animals and subhumans that Nietzsche lambasted in his works.

Anyone have any similar experiences? Books for this feel?

Why did he love Jews so much even though he knew they were responsible for the Christianity that he hated?
Also why did he hate Germans so much even though he was a German

>>17493329
*has a breakdown*
oops!

Imagine the state of his moustache after he finished a meal. YUCK

If you aren't born with remarkable top 0.0001% genetic intelligence, why would you ever attempt to be anything other than "the last man"? You have no possible wisdom to hold or give, you cannot accomplish anything of note, the information of the greatest minds in history is already spread to every single person, there is no war you can sacrifice yourself for, I could go on but you get the point. Unless you are born with 180+iq and with a wealthy family who will support whatever Ubermensch-like idea you have, then in a world without religion or God you may as well live for comfort. Have I missed the point or is Nietzsche completely useless for 99.9999% of the population?

Most miss qouted and miss-understood:
I'll start
1:God is dead

Is it
Neet-s-sche
or
Nee-che

Books on being ugly?

>>10534915
God's morality is subjective too. Its just the subject of most prominence.

>>10434391
TO PRAY IS TO ACCEPT DEFEAT

Post your favorite Nietzsche poems and aphorisms.

“To preach anything is to give it away. First, the egoist calls life war without mercy, and then he takes the greatest possible trouble to drill his enemies in war. To preach egoism is to practice altruism.”

In one swift move Chesterton crumbles the pathetic and confused Nietzcheian mental monument and elevates Stirner to his proper place in the heavens of thought. Goodbye you poor poor excuse for a man

Pleb here. Reading Genealogy of Morals, was wondering where philosophers fit in in regards to Master/Slave morality.

Are they rebelling against themselves to become their own masters via asceticism? I'm a little hazy on this.

Aside from their obvious differences in prose, wouldn't you say that Nietzsche is just a slightly darker and more sophisticated version of Aristotle?

>>10045060

>>10035761
More like JUST SHUT UP Zarathustra lol

>>10025418
Aren't all books postmodern because literature is dependent upon the reader's perception of that literature and we can only think in a fundamentally postmodern way because the way we analyze art is shaped by our culture?

>>9965419
The invention of CRISPR has rendered his work useless.

Was there ever somebody more wrong?

Was there ever somebody more wrong?

Which writer is literally you /lit/?
For me it's Nietzsche: intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

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>The seriousness of craft. Speak not of gifts, or innate talents! One can name all kinds of great men who were not very gifted. But they acquired greatness, became "geniuses" (as we say) through qualities about whose lack no man aware of them likes to speak; all of them had that diligent seriousness of a craftsman, learning first to form the parts perfectly before daring to make a great whole. They took time for it, because they had more pleasure in making well something little or less important, than in the effect of a dazzling whole. For example, it is easy to prescribe how to become a good short story writer, but to do it presumes qualities which are habitually overlooked when one says, "I don't have enough talent." Let a person make a hundred or more drafts of short stories, none longer than two pages, yet each of a clarity such that each word in it is necessary; let him write down anecdotes each day until he learns how to find their most concise, effective form; let him be inexhaustible in collecting and depicting human types and characters; let him above all tell tales as often as possible, and listen to tales, with a sharp eye and ear for the effect on the audience; let him travel like a landscape painter and costume designer; let him excerpt from the various sciences everything that has an artistic effect if well portrayed; finally, let him contemplate the motives for human behavior, and disdain no hint of information about them, and be a collector of such things day and night. In this diverse exercise, let some ten years pass: and then what is created in the workshop may also be brought before the public eye.
But how do most people do it? They begin not with the part but with the whole. Perhaps they once make a good choice, excite notice, and thereafter make ever worse choices for good, natural reasons.
Sometimes when reason and character are lacking to plan this kind of artistic life, fate and necessity take over their function, and lead the future master step by step through all the requisites of his craft.
From Human, all too human

I believe this is one of the best literary advice one could get.

>Reading Nietzsche.
>He just "announces" that God is dead.

Why was he allowed to do this? The nerve on this guy.

Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor