This is brilliant, as are the rest of your articles. You're one of the few who genuinely understands Nietzsche. I admire your thought and writing, and I hope you write more soon in this series, it's important work!
I would also be very interested in your thoughts on the "university" and the Spartan tyrants in particular. Also Periander of Corinth! And the figure of the "lawgiver" in ancient Greece, especially in relation to Nietzsche's philosopher as lawgiver...
Thank you. I am planning on writing one more Substack piece on the historical misinterpretation of Nietzsche. There are also plans for essays on different subjects for other publications / magazines, and if they come to fruition I will announce and link to them here. For this substack, I might also write a short piece on the idea of the "university" and how it can and cannot be revived in our time. Following that, possible future subjects include ancient and modern Gnosticism, studies of the Spartan tyrants, and excepts in English of untranslated historical books on the Spanish Civil War. I try to restrict myself to topics that are both of general interest and also that cannot be covered accurately, due to ignorance or censorship, in the world of mainstream academia and publishing.
It comes, all at once, in the 2030s. Not one, but many such Caesars alive to Nietzsche's vibrancy. They crack open the bare barn floors of the contented herd-animal, and raise high mountain peaks that forever rupture our dilapidated landscape. A new era awaits. Almost ready.
Yeah, Brinton's biography isn't very informative about Nietzsche himself, but it does show that before the 1950s, Nietzsche was basically seen in the US as one of the chief thinkers of national socialism. Brinton himself went to London to work for the OSS in 1941 immediately after finishing the biography, and the book is full of moral condemnation without good-faith attempts at understanding Nietzsche's philosophy.
This is brilliant, as are the rest of your articles. You're one of the few who genuinely understands Nietzsche. I admire your thought and writing, and I hope you write more soon in this series, it's important work!
I would also be very interested in your thoughts on the "university" and the Spartan tyrants in particular. Also Periander of Corinth! And the figure of the "lawgiver" in ancient Greece, especially in relation to Nietzsche's philosopher as lawgiver...
What's next at the University of Frogs? These first two articles were excellent!
Thank you. I am planning on writing one more Substack piece on the historical misinterpretation of Nietzsche. There are also plans for essays on different subjects for other publications / magazines, and if they come to fruition I will announce and link to them here. For this substack, I might also write a short piece on the idea of the "university" and how it can and cannot be revived in our time. Following that, possible future subjects include ancient and modern Gnosticism, studies of the Spartan tyrants, and excepts in English of untranslated historical books on the Spanish Civil War. I try to restrict myself to topics that are both of general interest and also that cannot be covered accurately, due to ignorance or censorship, in the world of mainstream academia and publishing.
It comes, all at once, in the 2030s. Not one, but many such Caesars alive to Nietzsche's vibrancy. They crack open the bare barn floors of the contented herd-animal, and raise high mountain peaks that forever rupture our dilapidated landscape. A new era awaits. Almost ready.
Thank you for the post. Very effective and true to Nietzsche. Much appreciated.
Yeah, Brinton's biography isn't very informative about Nietzsche himself, but it does show that before the 1950s, Nietzsche was basically seen in the US as one of the chief thinkers of national socialism. Brinton himself went to London to work for the OSS in 1941 immediately after finishing the biography, and the book is full of moral condemnation without good-faith attempts at understanding Nietzsche's philosophy.
Read charitably, I suppose it means Nietzsche was never domesticated. It's clearly meant as an insult.
Meant as an insult, yes. Personally, I would consider it praise.