(I comment after reading your preface). I think a lot of anarchism is characterized by a strange kind of mixed cultural moral provincialism and ethical absolutism. "Oh noes! Nietzsche didn't like women! I better nor read him then!" If I wanted to limit myself to reading only writers with my own political sensibilities, that would close off pretty much everything ever written before around 1900.
--- On Mon, 7/21/08, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> With Chaz Bufe's permission I've reprinted his
> excellent introduction to HL Mencken's _The Philosophy
> of Friedrich Nietzsche_; his introduction provides an
> excellent overview of where the philosophies of
> Nietzsche, Mencken, and anarchism (or, more broadly,
> anti-capitalist left-libertarianism) dovetail, but
> also where they diverge.
>
>
> http://www.cultpunk.com/?p=382
>
>
> A bonus is that unlike so much contemporary
> scholarship on Nietzsche, Bufe's account does not wade
> in the muck and mire of purple, PoMo-inspired prose.
> It's straightforward and clearly written.
>
> -B.
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