Conor Tuohy’s Reviews > The Birth of Tragedy > Status Update

My reactions to this lurch from a Vienna circle style feeling that anything not empirically verifiable is meaningless to a sense that the continentals can really capture profound insights even if they're not very clear writers.

Overall, I think there are some interesting grains of insight that have to be extracted from a lot of opaque chaff.

Exams and worse have their claws in me until Easter so its alow going. Moments of lucid brilliance interspersed with absolute incomprehensibility.

Even the lucid bits, while they feel insightful, don't feel *true* in an analytical way, they just kinda capture the mood of a feeling or response to something inaightfully if that makes sense?

Coherence is at a premium, but I knew what to expect. Wild that this is considered his most "analytical" work. There are moments when he completely loses the thread, and I think that the logical positivists were right, it is all dross.

However, there are other moments where he gives a form to a kind of latent thought or way of thinking that's really striking.