“A book is like a mirror. If an ass looks into it, you cannot expect an angel to look out.” Bearing the humbling injunction from Arthur Schopenhauer above in mind, I recently attempted once again a sympathetic, open-minded reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, and like my attempts to read Nietzsche sympathetically in [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:12AM on January 21, 2012