Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Solomon & Higgins)

[madali]

Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (Solomon & Higgins)

The audiobook is released by The Teaching Company, marketing their educational audiobooks as similar to college lectures.

That might be true, but in no way is that a positive quality to me, as college education is awful.

“Will to Power - The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche” is an awful audiobook on Nietzsche. Its length is 12 hours, so it is not exactly a quick listen. But what an astonish waste of time. The lecturers are Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins, two professors with zero charisma in giving the lectures. It is incredible how much difference the way of speaking itself makes in an audiobook, and both Solomon and Higgins kept making me fade out

The biggest problem with the lectures is that Solomon and Higgins insist on defending Nietzsche’s works to such a degree, that it castrates anything interest about him. This is a typical modern (or maybe in every generation?) approach. Take something interesting and try to force it to abide by today’s standards of morality. Therefore, the lecturers take all the bite, force, and urgency out of Nietzsche’s work, and turn it into a boring, trite, and safe piece of philosophy.

I have not read any of his books yet, but I have read excerpts of his, and he is unique in philosophy for disregarding conventional boundaries of thought. He plows through accepted concepts, breaking walls, and forcing us to rethink everything. Solomon and Higgins are too preoccupied with Nietzsche’s work not offending anyone that we are left with nothing.

1/5

[X.]

Read Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil.

Then move on to Schopenhauer.

[madali]

Have you read all of this stuff or have you heard about them?

[X.]

I have read both authors.

[madali]

You are well read, you bastard!

[X.]

Have to distinguish myself from the sheep!

(Reading Nausea by Sartre, as I write this...)