I know I could have printed his work from on line, but the tactile pleasure of looking through the shelves, choosing a book, and feeling a bound volume in my hands is something I will probably never be able to resist (and do not feel much like trying to get over if truth be told).
I have been going through it this afternoon since nobody is in the office and it seemed like a Nietzschean thing to do. He comes across as your favorite eccentric uncle, capable of being insightful at one moment and off-the-wall the next (and sometimes both at the same time).
But there is also a gracious air of provocation (sometimes morphing into bitch wit) that I am enjoying. From what I have read so far, I can see why Foucault would have liked him. Nietzsche, too, seems concerned with the care of self. He does seem different from Marx, but not necessarily in a bad way. Nietzsche seems to have been concerned with questions other than those that occupied Marx.
More later.
Brian