[lbo-talk] HOW THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT IS BLOWING IT: REVISITED

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Mon Nov 3 12:22:34 PST 2003


On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Charles Brown wrote (about Nietzsche):


> CB: I've read him some, but then I start gagging, so it's hard to
finish.
> Sorry, I take that back.
>
> I'm truly curious. What do you find of value in him ? He seems to be so
> down on the masses of people, into supermen and all that ?
>

Yeah, he's anti-democratic, anti-socialist, and misogynist. I understand the gagging. However, he is still a brilliant philosopher. He introduced many provocative ideas that still influence social theory and research (e.g., the fiction of the unified, individuated self; the "genealogical" method). In short: he's important to understand, just skip the goofy stuff ("when you go to woman, bring your whip--").

Miles



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