>--- joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> wrote:
>
><<the aesthetization of war, the nietzchean
>celebration of the warrior ->>
>
>I am going off on a tangent, but whenever Nietzche
>gets implicated in matters of militarism, I must
>remind that Nietzche liked the discipline of the
>military, not war.
This is not accurate, Joanna was right. Nietzsche liked the discipline of the _warrior_, e.g., the samurai, not the professional bureacratized Prussian military, which he regarded with contempt as a manifestation of the last-manliness that also produced democracy amd socialism. Nietzsche of course hated war insofar as that involved killing people, say enough of that in 1871; for him war is a metaphor for spiritual struggle and self-overcoming. That is Thomas' real point.
>He also had a falling out with his beloved sister
>because she married an anti-semitic proto-fascist.
>
Who took him in and approprtiated him and his legacy when he went mad. ahh, Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche, whatta creep. Shelatersucked up to the Nazis, contributing to N's bad odor as somehow precursor of the Nazis.
jks
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