August 2005
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A forest of bamboo:
The trouble with Nietzsche
Discussed in this essay:
Friedrich Nietzsche, by Curtis Cate. The Overlook Press, 2005. 689 pages. $37.50.
Perhaps it is the fate of intellectuals who incautiously trust their thoughts to a wider public that those thoughts should be abducted and abused like a child of rich parents; or, because these ideas are sometimes attractive to the intellectually ambitious, they are subjected to obfuscation and misuse: defended by their friends but traduced, lied about, and maligned by their enemies as if theories were politicians campaigning for office. Maybe no thinker gets picked on more than another, Walter Kaufmann politely wondered at the beginning of the third edition of his book on Friedrich Nietzsche; nevertheless he found it necessary to whack many a knuckle on the philosopher’s behalf for just those depredations and incursions that any fertile but defenseless intellectual territory invites.
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| SEE ALSO: Biography; Cate, Curtis; Friedrich Nietzsche (Book); Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Philosophers; Pictorial works | |||||||
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