>Apparently for Carnap part of Nietzsche's greatness
>was the fact that he used poetic means for expressing
>himself.
goodness, wouldn't that make nietzsche less clear and powerful, non-fictionally?
i confess i haven't read carnap, but nietzsche's re-emergence as a signal philosophical influence is contemporaneous with the influence of post-structuralist thinkers like derrida in the states. although foucault was most prominent in his embrace of nietzsche -- triumph of the will, y'all -- the aestheticized language which, as many have observed here, plays better in french than in english, is part and parcel of the "deconstructionist project". derrida tried to incorporate his process into his own writing. don't blame the willful jargonese which followed in his wake on him alone -- it's sort of like blaming crick and watson for frankenfoods.
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American generals in Iraq triumphantly announced at the weekend that they had successfully taken over Samarra and killed 125 insurgents. They failed to mention that this is the third time they have captured this particular city on the Tigris river north of Baghdad in the past 18 months...The situation on the ground in Iraq is far worse than what is portrayed by the media. Ironically, this is because it is now so dangerous for journalists and television crews to leave their heavily guarded hotels in Baghdad that they cannot refute claims by the American and British governments that much of Iraq is safe.
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