The Portable NietzscheWalter Kaufmann
The Portable Nietzsche
by Walter Kaufmann · first published 1954
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Unfortunately I don't maintain a list (it's on my to-do list), but sure! Here are some good books I've read/am reading lately. - Nietzsche's Philosophy of Religion by Julian Young - The Portable Nietzsche by Kaufmann - A Secular Age by Charles Taylor - The Art of the Islamic Garden by Emma Clark - Notes on Culture by T. S. Eliot - In Praise of Shadows by Tanizaki - The Qur'an: Oxford World Classics…
on “U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars” ↗When I studied Nietzsche it was more or less “Read Zarathustra, then read all the ‘Viking Portable Nietzsche’ then read all of the ‘Basic Writings of Nietzche’” all translates by Hollingdale or, preferably, Kauffman. Among the jewels you’ll find in such a reading are things like the seed of Nietzsche’s thought…
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗…an obvious PR no-no. I guess there's no way to know for certain either way, though. [1] "When McCartney and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche but found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, adapted from the translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Walter Evans-Wentz, which was introduced…
on “The Slippery Search for Creativity” ↗