ITT: Nietzsche
Are you a fan of his writing style? Who was the best translator? What is his best book?
>>7792614
>style
yes
>translator
Kaufmann (>inb4 Jewish conspiracy)
>book
The Birth of Tragedy
I bet in real life Nietzsche was autistic in the exact same way that Michio Kaku is autistic and freaks out every time Jim Norton says hello to him in the elevator.
>Hey, Herr Nietzsche, good morn--
>A-ahh!! Oh, you startled me. I'm dynamite.
>>7792630
I enjoy the Kaufmann translations as well, except for Zarathustra. I like the Thomas Common version desu
>>7792635
nietzsche was well known for being a very pleasant person to be around in real life (when he wasn't sick), actually.
>>7792656
>implying autistic people aren't pleasant to be around
<spoiler>actually no youre right</spoiler>
>>7792614
>Are you a fan of his writing style?
yes yes yes 100%
Who was the best translator?
I have only read translations by Hollingdale and Kaufman, I would like to hear thoughts on this as well.
What is his best book?
Twilight of the Idols is my favorite so far.
>>7792656
He was also known for being a little neurotic. He talks about 'nervous energies' in reference to himself constantly.
His landlady in Turin also claimed he regularly danced around his room naked like the legendary Beastman
Anyways, on OP
1. He is the most readable philosopher of the 19th century. His style is clear, rich with ideas, utterly animating even on secondary readings.
2. Kaufmann is the best introductory translator. Kaufmann is a bit of an apologist in some respects, so take his translations of Nietzsche's edgier bits with a grain of salt. Hollingdale benefits from decades of new scholarship in his translation so his is considered more authoritative now, but the prose wasn't as fluid in some places. I really liked the Kaufmann Zarathustra more. The Common version was a good idea in theory but utterly mangles some of Zarathustra's finer points with the KJV tomfoolery. Better to lose the biblical flair than to lose ideas.
3. Zarathustra contains every single idea he ever had and is the most artful of his books. On the Genealogy of Morality is probably his most influential today because Foucault fell in love with Nietzsche's style of historical analysis of contemporary ideas and used it in his work.
how do you pronounce Nietzsche?
>>7793180
Only germans can.
His style is cringeworthy
