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Is this collection a good place to start with Nietzche?
It includes The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by Walter Kaufmann.
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>>9059374
the greeks and kant are a good place to start with Nietzsche.
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>>9059374
Learn German, fag. If you must read Kaufmann, ignore his "scholarship".
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Read Untimely Meditations first
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>>9059460
Kaufmann is a fine scholar, you just have to understand the time and place in which he was doing his work as interlocutor. He was rehabilitating Nietzsche in the anglophone world.
Anyways, with Nietzsche you can choose several paths that all have their merits
1. Completely chronological. This approach has one big disadvantage in that Zarathustra is hard to read without the context of BGE and GM. Take notes on Zarathustra and read BGE/GM alongside it.
2. Zarathustra last.
3. Twilight first then chronological
4. only core works, Twilight/BGE/GM
>>9059460
reading a translation produced by a scholar is usually better than stumbling through learning a new language so you can kind of sort of read someone's work, particularly when the work is complex and full of neologisms like Nietzsche's.
Unless you're going to go the whole nein yards with German and learn both the language and culture to the point of mastery you are better off reading in translation,.
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>>9059487
>reading a translation produced by a scholar is usually better than stumbling through learning a new language so you can kind of sort of read someone's work, particularly when the work is complex and full of neologisms like Nietzsche's.
>Unless you're going to go the whole nein yards with German and learn both the language and culture to the point of mastery you are better off reading in translation,.
Learning a language and a culture isn't difficult.
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>>9059490
Nietzsche refers to phrases and events that not even some Germans today would know about, nevermind German language students.
Also if you read enough of the different translators then you can guess which parts are more true to the original.
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