/lit/ - Literature

>>2770349

get a job you impotent neckbeard!

bump

Walk away. Read Walt Whitman instead. Same ideas; more fun to read.

If you don't have a strong foundation in greek, french, and german philosophy until the late 1800's you really have no business reading Nietzsche.

from left to right

>How do I read Nietzsche?
However you want to.

>>2770349
You need to kill joos to understand the Nietzche

Do you have any experience in philosophy? People who haven't read Nietzsche are right that he is often iconoclastic but they forget that he is an actual philosopher and not an aphorism-machine.

If you want to jump in as quickly as possible, read an anthology on Western philosophy (like Russell's, even though Russell shortchanges Nietzsche therein), and then pick up a copy of The Portable Nietzsche. That way, you'll have a superficial grounding in philosophy -- perhaps enough to "get" a lot of Nietzsche -- and then you can digest a weighty chunk of his work as organized by a very competent Nietzsche scholar (Walter Kaufmann).

>>2770366
This anon is essentially right, but that doesn't mean you need an extensive education in philosophy to try.

Am I the only one who reads nietzsche merely as a way of trying to fit him into a bigger picture of history?

Am I so weird?

>>2770413

you're an idiot regardless, for historical context you'll want to read a text that places Nietzsche in history

>>2770435
dat jaw

>>2770435
>not historical context
>metahistory