Friday, September 25, 2009

Myths about Nietzsche

I discuss them on Philosophy Bites. They are: the overman is a central idea in his philosophy; will to power is central to his philosophy; Nietzsche is a proto-postmodernist; and Nietzsche is an anti-semite.

I'm sure various Nietzsche scholars will disagree that these are all myths, but such is life in Nietzsche studies!

2 comments:

kingfishertype97 said...

Such A View is very attractive for me.
In Japan,intellectual have an
interest in the subject" God is dead"generally.To be different from"Wille zur Macht","Übermensch"is
not discussed so often.("Wille zur Macht" is the most important subject ,of course most Japanese scholar think so.) By the way I am not Nietzsche scholar.Please forgive me.

Kurt said...

Brian - I've been a listener to the Philosophy Bites podcast for a couple years now - and I really enjoyed your episode - thanks for being on. Enjoy your blog too - thanks. Kurt