Status Updates From A Nietzsche Reader

Sections on Nihilism and Anti-Nihilism finished. I’m noticing that over the past several months I have been reading the usual suspects: Sartre, Beckett, Nietzsche…I have on deck, Cioran. I went through much of Dostoevsky and Kafka last year or so. It all feels somewhat adolescent but I must burn through these prerequisite candles…

The section on religion, quoting liberally from The Antichrist, is scorching

I’d read both Beyond Good and Evil and Genealogy of Morals before this book, so to reread those sections under “Morality” here felt simultaneously like good review and also rather boring because it was going over well-trod ground. The section on Morality here in this book is quite lengthy; of course it was one of Nietzsche’s preoccupations.

This might be a better way to initially approach Nietzsche: in a reader arranged according to theme, where one can read in a relatively light, mobile fashion, as opposed to in one of his works where the tendency may be to become stranded, with no help, no relief

Not easy reading but I’m doing it. I’m determined to try to get something from this, and I am.

Deadass took me TWO HOURS to get through only FORTY pages bruh