[lbo-talk] Nietzsche Bibliography (Was Re: Iran Youth Movements)

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Rosenberg!! Show me that anyone other than highly
specialized scholars of Nazism have ever read
Rosenberg. Certainly no one worth taking seriously
about Nietzsche would cite him. There is one great
Nietzsche commentator who was a Nazi whose work is
really worthwhile: Heidegger.

http://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Volumes-One-Two-Vols/dp/0060638419/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/103-8716442-5933450?ie=UTF8&qid=1183011375&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Vols-Knowledge-Metaphysics-Nihilism/dp/0060637943/ref=pd_sim_b_4/103-8716442-5933450?ie=UTF8&qid=1183011375&sr=8-1

 But he was exceedingly idiosyncratic, even as a Nazi.
However, Nazi though he was, his commentary is
essential if not necessarily wholly reliable.

Bataille is one of French "New Nietzsche" people. They
were left wing post-structuralists influenced by
Heidegger. Some of their stuff was usefully
anthologized by David B. Allison:

http://www.amazon.com/New-Nietzsche-Contemporary-Styles-Interpretation/dp/0262510340/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-8716442-5933450?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183011678&sr=8-1

Bataille's major work on Nietzsche is:

http://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Continuum-Impacts-Georges-Bataille/dp/0826477089/ref=sr_1_1/103-8716442-5933450?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1183011834&sr=1-1

Lots of people like this sort of thing. I have more
patience for it than most people with my background
(heavy training in analytical philosophy of science),
but I don't find it worth the effort. myself, and I
certainly don't think it's a good guide to Nietzsche. 

My favorite modern commentary on Nietzsche that I also
think is reasonably accessible and accurate is
Alexander Nehemas, Nietzsche: Life as Literature, 

http://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Life-Literature-Alexander-Nehamas/dp/0674624262/ref=cm_lmf_tit_13_rdssss0/103-8716442-5933450

I'm not up with the latest literature, though. The
Cambridge Companions are generally pretty good:

http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Nietzsche-Companions-Philosophy/dp/0521367670/ref=cm_lmf_tit_12_rdssss0/103-8716442-5933450

Brian Leiter is a close friend who's a leading
Nietzsche scholar. His book Nietzsche on Morality is
very accurate and readable, although in my view a bit
deaf to nuance and to what makers Nietzsche exciting.

http://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Philosophy-Guidebook-Nietzsche-Guidebooks/dp/0415152852/ref=ed_oe_p/103-8716442-5933450?ie=UTF8&qid=1183012647&sr=1-1

Leiter is sparkling compared to Richard Schacht, whose
fat book on Nietzsche is a duty rather than a
pleasure, but very thorough and accurate; more useful
for the general reader is his collection of other
people's essays on the Genealogy of Morals:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/103-8716442-5933450?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=schacht+nietzsche

Which (the original text) is still a must-read,

Although not new, Walter Kaufmann's Nietzsche has legs
and is very readable, also it has a lot of interesting
biographical and historical material, and it
thoroughly debunks the Nietzsche-Was-a-Nazi lie:

http://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Philosopher-Psychologist-Walter-Kaufmann/dp/0691019835/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1_rdssss0/103-8716442-5933450

--- BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:


> > Georges Bataille's approach to Nietzsche's work is
> 
> a much more fruitful avenue to take than the blind 
> alleys taken by Afred Rosenberg and other fascists.
> 
> What was his take and where can I read on it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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