/lit/ - Literature

It reads like a bunch of shitposts, all of his books do but especially this one. Seems to have good parts.

I don‘t get all the spazzing about his sister. Most writers have their characteristic faults ironed out by an editor or appended in posterity.

>>21730612
WARNING: REDDIT THREAD

>>21730612
>What are some examples of his sisters editing that obscured what Nietzsche intended to convey
There's no such thing. The Will to Power is not a book that Nietzsche wrote and was scrambed by Elizabeth. It's a collection of posthumous notes that were edited into a book. Elizabeth is also the creator of the book, in a sense.

>>21730612
just making a specific selection of the nachlass is a form of influencing the message.

if you want unpublished nietzsche, read the actual nachlass chronologically in addition to his correspondence.

>>21730612
read it as what it is, collected notes that where not finished or polished (though some seem to be). It's classic Nietzsche but without the grandiosity of the prose you find in his other books.

>>21730681
I've read
>The Birth of Tragedy
>The Gay Science
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Beyond Good and Evil
>On The Genealogy of Morals
>Twilight of the Idols
>The Antichrist
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>>21730686
Okay but where does the reaction come from where people claim Will to Power is distorted to please Nazis? I've never seen any direct passages from the book that support these claims, surely there must be some?

>>21730708
He talks in many of his books about the shaping of a race or a population through its costumes, through nutrition, hygiene, etc. I think it's very common for people to misread the descriptive as prescriptive. I've seen it countless times. With that in mind it's not hard to misinterpret him as more than descriptive and even think of him as a eugenicist.

>>21730708
The older editions had a lot of interpolations by his sister and censoring as well. The current editions are based on his own handwritten notes and exclude everything she added and add everything she omitted

>>21730708
none of those are the nachlass fren,

>>21730708
>Okay but where does the reaction come from where people claim Will to Power is distorted to please Nazis? I've never seen any direct passages from the book that support these claims, surely there must be some?
Let's say there are recordings of you talking for hundreds of hours. Then some nazi edits it down to a 20 minute clip choosing only sentences he likes. You may not end up with Mein Kampf, but it's not an honest representation of your views either.

Given that Nietzsche had disowned his sister, hated her for associating with antisemite nationalists and how they were appropriating his work even when he was well, he would have never condoned having her as an editor.

>>21730822
So she didn't add anything?

>>21730612
the will to power is woke liberal shit and it is worthless

>>21730849
Not sure, I just never bothered with it and went straight to the source (the nachlass aka the complete notes he left behind)